continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

[yurtesen at ispro.net]

Quoting "Oliver Fromme" <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>:

> These features are readily available right now on FreeBSD.
> You don't have to code anything.

Well with 2 downsides,

The fact that I still would need to take full backups once in a while  
if I do this and Linux users do not have to because the CDP software  
on Linux does not need to do this. The software expires the old data  
automatically and you only need a full backup at first run only.

The bigger problem is that I have to convert all my filesystems to  
ZFS. Can one convert UFS2 to ZFS easily even? I dont wanna spend a  
large part of the year doing such job while Linux users can just do  
this on 'any' filesystem they use. How am I suppose to compete with  
companies which use Linux otherwise if I am doing this sort of tasks  
all the time?

Thanks for all the advices but my original question was if somebody  
can give inside information to a company(for example r1soft) which is  
writing CDP backup solutions so they could implement such solution on  
FreeBSD also. Do you know such person?

I am not really looking for alternatives because there is none. You  
cant just expect commercial companies to convert to a new filesystem  
to add a feature which other OSes manage without going to such  
measures. Can you imagine the monetary cost if all FreeBSD users had  
to convert to ZFS (or another filesystem) to take near cdp level  
backups? This simply would make people think 'I wish I used Linux from  
the beginning'.

Thanks,
Evren