Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: These features are readily available right now on FreeBSD. You don't have to code anything. Well with 2

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: These features are

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:51:26 +0300 Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original question (which was lost) was if somebody who has technical knowledge and coding skills who can put r1soft into the right track so their software can support FreeBSD. Because r1soft is interested in

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I just wanted to say thanks to all the replies to this thread. It has been insightful even though the suggestions I have received were not really answers to what I asked. I dont see any reason why we should continue to argue about if this can be done using ZFS or Hammer or any other

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Mike

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Evren Yurtesen wrote: Shaun Amott wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is also important that

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: However, ZFS does exist on FreeBSD, and I think it wouldn't be impossible to add similar features to ZFS. Possibly even as a ZFS module? This might be something better addressed at the ZFS project level --- but the next question is:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
Go here: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?28,197644,197644 There are a ton of ways to maintain mysql backups without having to replay the entire log. Google some keywords. With regards to solutions based on filesystem snapshots, such as partial log replaying

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: (ZFS has a way to do something similar but I do not know what the various advantages or disadvantages of using the feature are). The only current way to do this on ZFS is to snapshot (very cheap) and stream

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread yurtesen
Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: These features are readily available right now on FreeBSD. You don't have to code anything. Well with 2 downsides, Once you actually try and implement these solutions, you'll see that

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The fact that I still would need to take full backups once in a while =20 :if I do this and Linux users do not have to because the CDP software =20 :on Linux does not need to do this. The software expires the old data =20 :automatically and you only need a full backup at first run only. You

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would allow someone to understand what needs to be done and estimate how hard it would be. Well... I

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would allow someone to understand what needs to be done and estimate how hard it would be. From their

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would allow someone to understand what needs to be done and estimate

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Outback Dingo
one answer... www.bakbone.com On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would allow someone to

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: FWIW, the HAMMER file system _does_ support replication to remote targets (thus separate). Unfortunately they call this feature mirroring, which is misleading at best. It's really rather a

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Shaun Amott wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is also important that data can be restored if deleted by accidents

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Outback Dingo wrote: one answer... www.bakbone.com http://www.bakbone.com Unfortunately if you check their compatibility matrix you can see that I have to use Linux to be able to do CDP :) http://www.bakbone.com/docs/NetVault_Backup_Supported_Platforms_October_2008.pdf or am I reading this

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Thanks again for pointing out snapshots. It is more or less suitable :) I'll just warn you that if you're planning to use snapshots for your own purposes, to first do an extensive stress test on a non-critical machine with backed up data. I've had

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:18:47 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Wow... thanks for the flame, but there's no reason that the device that is receiving the hammer replication couldn't be on the other side of the globe and there's no reason it couldn't be

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would perhaps be too much to ask but can you drop a line to them and ask or is it ok if I give your email address to them and they can contact you? Feel free. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wouldnt that device need to keep the whole filesystem? Like if you have 10 machines with 10x 1GB drives (lets say each used about 250gb), you will need 10TB disk space in the backup server? Yes and no and yes... It stores *changes* to the file systems,

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any information at all that would allow someone to

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: FWIW, the HAMMER file system _does_ support replication [...] No, actually, I didn't write that. You need to learn to quote properly. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:19:48 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Bakul Shah
Sorry about that. Didn't mean to continue this discussion in -hackers but forgot to remove the cc list. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread yurtesen
Quoting Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Wow... thanks for the flame, but there's no reason that the device that is receiving the hammer replication couldn't be on the other side of the

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread yurtesen
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you take a step back and go through and read the entire thread again from the start, though, I think you will understand my frustration. Evren asked a question which everybody else is doing their best not to answer in as many words as possible;

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-08 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, re Continuous Data Protection (an enterprise market niche, today), a recent paper that provides some background and has basic references might be: http://www.usenix.org/event/fast08/tech/verma.html SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism, FAST '08, Akshat

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They actually do not think that it is an easy job to adapt their software to support FreeBSD even. See this post: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=4224postcount=3 All this shows is that they don't know anything about FreeBSD at all (plus they need

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I think here might be a misunderstanding. I was talking about a reliable backup solution whereas you guys are all the time talking about mirroring and replication type solutions. Since you cant be thinking that mirroring and replication can replace backup, there must be a misunderstanding?

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Shaun Amott
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is also important that data can be restored if deleted by accidents etc. While

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: From my reading, Hammer is much more than a filesystem, but then you probably havn't read about it yet. By my reading, Hammer hits all their feature points and does it better _because_ it's a

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I wanted to respond to DES' email separately --- because he's right. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They actually do not think that it is an easy job to adapt their software to support FreeBSD even. See

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:56:09 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They actually do not think that it is an easy job to adapt their software to support FreeBSD even. See this post:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Shaun Amott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is also

continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to support FreeBSD and need help. Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 6 Oct 2008, at 11:00, Evren Yurtesen wrote: As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to support FreeBSD and need help. Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Bob Bishop wrote: Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=3414postcount=9 Should be possible to do this with a geom(4) class? I am not saying it is impossible. They just need somebody to put them to right track I guess. I

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Vlad GALU
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Bishop wrote: Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=3414postcount=9 Should be possible to do this with a geom(4) class? I am not saying it is

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [regarding r1soft.com, ...] I am not saying it is impossible. They just need somebody to put them to right track I guess. I personally cant do that. It would be nice if somebody who has knowledge in this area contacts

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Volker
On 12/23/-58 20:59, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to support FreeBSD and need help. Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:09:06 +0300 Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Bishop wrote: Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=3414postcount=9

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Vlad GALU wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Bishop wrote: Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=3414postcount=9 Should be possible to do this with a geom(4) class? I am not

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [regarding r1soft.com http://r1soft.com, ...] I am not saying it is impossible. They just need somebody to put them to right track I guess. I personally cant

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread George Hartzell
Bakul Shah writes: On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:09:06 +0300 Vlad GALU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Bishop wrote: Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Sean Bruno wrote: Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to support FreeBSD and need help. Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: http

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Volker wrote: On 12/23/-58 20:59, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to support FreeBSD and need help. Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [regarding r1soft.com http://r1soft.com, ...] I am not saying it is impossible. They just

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:24:32 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were a couple of threads about using kqueue or other FreeBSD tools to build something like Mac OS X's Time Machine. R1soft's software sounds very similar. Time machine doesn't do continuous backups, it does them

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Actually, right back at you. You didn't fathom the meaning in my statement. While your post was vague, I read the company's website to I am sorry what was vague since I wrote 'continuous backup' in my post? The whole idea is such a basic idea that if you put this

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Actually, right back at you. You didn't fathom the meaning in my statement. While your post was vague, I read the company's website to While Hammer might be doing a similar job, it is a

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-06 Thread George Hartzell
Mike Meyer writes: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:24:32 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were a couple of threads about using kqueue or other FreeBSD tools to build something like Mac OS X's Time Machine. R1soft's software sounds very similar. Time machine doesn't do