OK sounds like the answer is to not bother. Kind of what I suspected. The
tapedrive was not going to be a problem I was only trying to get the
workgroup option to work to back it up via TCP/IP to the Windows/XP system
with the tapedrive on it.
I guess I'll just stick with my current backup method. The other drive on
the system runs windows so I just mount it and backup stuff to it and then
do the tape backups from there.
Just makes it a 2 step 2 OS boot thing to restore stuff from tape though.
--
William A. Gianopoulos
IT Security Engineering
Raytheon Company
-Original Message-
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:43 PM
To: William Gianopoulos
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall
In the last episode (Jan 12), William Gianopoulos said:
This has probably been asked before, but I could not find any info
searching the archives. I am trying to run the Linux version Tapeware
from Yosemite under FreeBSD 4.1. It fails because the Linux syscall
sysinfo is not implemented. My questions are:
1- Is there some other port/package or option I should be using?
2- Would a later version of FreeBSD fix this?
3- Should I just give up?
You will face two other problems once you get it actually running:
* You won't be able to use it as a device server, since Tapeware sends
raw SCSI requests to /dev/sg* on Linux. The equivalent for FreeBSD
would be to use /dev/pass* devices, and there is no emulation layer.
* Linux emulated programs always search /compat/linux/ before /, so if
you ask to have /bin backed up it will back up /compat/linux/bin
instead of /bin, for example. I don't know if there is a useful
workaround, since Tapeware is smart enough to not follow symlinks
(otherwise you could ccreate a symlink at /compat/linux/realroot
pointing to /, and ask Tapeware to back up /realroot)
Tapeware is great software, but I don't think they are a large enough
company to be able to maintain a port to FreeBSD. I think you can tell
Tapeware to back up NFS mountpoints, so you might be able to back up the
FreeBSD system by mounting it from another Linux box (or a Windows one if
the BSD one is running samba)
--
Dan Nelson
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