Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:24:47 -0800 From: William R.Dickson <billd@forest.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: dantz retrospect backup for freebsd Message-ID: <FE9F03D4-2CF1-11D8-AD8C-00039377F878@forest.net>
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Last month, you wrote: > I have been attempting to make Dantz's Retrospect Linux client run > under FreeBSD 4.9. It pretty much just "works" as long as you add a > /compat/linux/etc/mtab file. The drawback is that only /compat/linux is > backed up! Since this is the way it is supposed to work under FreeBSD, > we have a problem with a backup application. Ideally you would like to > back up from FreeBSD's notion of / and not Linux's. The only idea I can > come up with is to make the FreeBSD file system available to Linux via > some mount point. The restore operation will be tricky but this is a > start. Is there a better way to do this? You have any luck with this? If you got it to work, I'd appreciate any hints about what you figured out. Thanks, -Bill
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