On 3/20/06, Donald J. Ankney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through tar for remote linux/BSD boxes. I've been using this solution across several platforms (all servers) for a year now, and it has worked well.
Does firewire work under OpenBSD? According to http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html firewire is unsupported. What is the state of firewire support (for external discs)? I have an upcoming install for which I've written off OpenBSD due to this, and I'd very much like to be able to use it. Dag
