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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!sonnet1.sonnet.com!news From: rz@Nikola.com (R Zeff) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Subject: Re: Want to backup FreeBSD from NT ? Read This! Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 06:11:17 GMT Organization: Nikola Systems Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3171e828.10097859@sonnet.com> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp5-mod.sonnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:101166 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17169 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:8690 We have been backing up our Linux machine using Samba. Watch out for those unix style recursive links! -- Robert aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: > > >I have been trying find a way to backup a FreeBSD machine from >NT using Arcada backup software for quite some time, but haven't >found a solution. Recent email exchange with Arcada/Seagate >(for those who dont know Arcada got bought by Seagate), revealed >that they will relase an Arcada agent for Linux.FreeBSD only if >enough peolpe ask for it. > >So if you need to backup your FreeBSD or Linux machines from >NT using Arcada or you are planning a setup where you may need >something like that, please send email to : Support@smg.seagate.com >and let them know. > >They are very nice people and usually reply within 24 hours. They >just need to be convinced that there is enough need for such a thing. >Tell them, we'll happily live with beta releases if thats what they >can do for now. > >It may only take them a recompile after all on one of these machine. >I have even offered setting up a test machine for them to try and >compile it on if they dont want the hassles of setting up a FreeBSD >machine. > >Thanks. > >Atif Khan >aak2@ra.msstate.edu Robert Zeff rzeff@moa.com CServe: 70323,1251