Ed Hintz wrote:
> Being that OS X has a rather incestuous relationship with NetBSD, and
>that Dantz is publicly working on OS X support, 'tis but a small step to
>NBSD and OBSD... One would hope such a step would take place, to be sure...
Actually, it is FreeBSD that Apple has utilized for OS
At 01:38 PM 8/9/2000, you wrote:
>At 12:42 PM -0700 8/9/00, Doug Clements wrote:
>>What don't you like about my way of creating a tar file on a mounted NT
>>share? It seems to work rather well, and makes for an easy recovery.
>
>I recognize that it'll work great, I just prefer not to have to do t
: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Silly Newbie Questions
>Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2000, 1:38 PM
>
>>I'll second a linux client, but don't forget the other unixes! We
>>use OpenBSD h
At 12:42 PM -0700 8/9/00, Doug Clements wrote:
>Yes, you could share out /. Make sure you don't backup the /dev
>directory, though. You then also run into potential security
>problems with sharing the entire disk. Restoring this way would also
>lose permissions and ownership, making it (unfortu
Yes, you could share out /. Make sure you don't backup the /dev directory,
though. You then also run into potential security problems with sharing the
entire disk. Restoring this way would also lose permissions and ownership,
making it (unfortunately) useless for unix :/
What don't you like ab
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> From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:31:40 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Silly Newbie Questions
Couldn't you, in theory, just share out "/" as an appletalk/smb share
(platform-dependent), and tell Retrospect to back up that network
share?
Then, in theory, if you had to restore it, you reinstall, share it
out and let it dump it back out on the share. The only potential
problem I could s
There's no native linux Retrospect client, but I use Retrospect to backup
tar archives of my linux machines. I smbmount a share on the NT server
running Retrospect, and backup stuff to there using tar, which gets backed
up via script by Retrospect. To restore, you have to recover the tar file
OK, the Hardware Compatibility List says "All HP DAT Drives" for both
Mac and Windows, but THEN goes on to enumerate a bunch of HP DAT
Drives.
Is it safe to still say "any HP DAT Drive", or is it just the
enumerated HP DAT Drives that are acceptable?
Secondly, is anyone using Retrospect to ba
