dantz retrospect backup for freebsd
William R.Dickson
billd at forest.net
Fri Dec 12 14:24:49 PST 2003
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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