From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 4 21:27:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9148C37B405 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from FRANKENFURTER (user-112vp95.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.229.37]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07847; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:27:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:32:59 -0800 From: Brian Sobolak X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal Reply-To: Brian Sobolak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <111105778651.20011104213259@mindspring.com> To: Paul Robinson Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re[2]: Mini survey. Backup service for BSDs In-Reply-To: <01110403172000.01404@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> References: <20011104142909.F18641-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> <01110403172000.01404@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Paul, Saturday, November 03, 2001, 7:17:20 PM, you wrote: PR> I think you might be targetting the wrong crowd at this point in time - PR> backup systems like you're proposing are really useful if you have a desktop PR> with loads of important info on, but you can't afford a DAT or similar, and PR> you want an off-site backup. As the current market segment FreeBSD sits in is PR> mostly the ISP-like data center or hard-core sysadmin crowd, most of the PR> current users will have a backup solution of their own. I think this was one of services offered by Eazel for Linux. I wonder how many customers they signed up. PR> Never heard of unison, but I know rsync doesn't like large filesystems, and PR> eats memory like Elvis ate burgers, but the ssh is good for the transactional Burgers? I thought The King preferred fried peanut butter sandwiches... -- Got work? http://www.planetshwoop.com/resume/ Brian Sobolak sobolak@myrealbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message