From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 14:24:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6851816A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from forest.net (forest.net [216.168.37.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A251D43D3C for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billd@forest.net) Received: from [216.168.62.202] (account billd [216.168.62.202] verified) by forest.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 49740305 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:24:48 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: William R.Dickson Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:24:47 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: dantz retrospect backup for freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:24:49 -0000 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