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)
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Dan Nelson
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