on 7/3/00 8:00 PM, retro-talk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be an out off topic question, but I have used Retrospect for
years in network environments and have switched recently to a Linux
based file server. As far as I can see, there is no available product on
the market that supports a Linux backup-server with possible MacOS
networked clients. As Retrospect is really great I would like to see
also a Linux version of Retrospect Server Backup Software. Is there any
intention in this direction?
I would think that this would come after, or along side the MacOS X version.
It would be the most sensible way as I assume (Stop me if I am wrong) but
the actual Retrospect engine would be written as a BSD Daemon. This should
be fairly trivial to port to Linux.
I'd actually like to see a Linux/*NIX based client first, since I'd like to
add my two Linux servers into the mix. I can see the issue of releasing a
commercial product like this for a generally open-source environment, while
trying to keep it closed source and still work on everyone's machine and
different distributions. Distributed.net does it pretty good, so it can't be
too hard.
As it stands now, I need to run two parallel backups, and have yet to find
anything as nice as Retrospect for Linux. I trust Retrospect, I don't trust
tar or dump as much. =)
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