Re: Backup solutions for NetBSD?

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 09:19:52 PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>At Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:26:12 -0500, "John Palmer" 
><jpalmer%american-webmasters.net@localhost> wrote:
>Subject: Backup solutions for NetBSD?
>> 
>> Anyone know of a good backup appliance that is compatible with NetBSD/Unix 
>> dump?
>> 
>> I'm not sure that the Barracuda backup solution supports UNIX dump from the 
>> client side.
>
>Any appliance that supports NFS can be used with rdiff-backup (in pkgsrc).
>
>Indeed some appliances even support SSH and presumably could support at
>least rsync, if not also rdiff-backup.

I've been meaning to try the write-devices.diff patch from Darryl Dixon.
(probably inspired by copy-devices.diff from Matt McCutchen)

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=write-devices.diff;h=42d9c804e2b6d19282f11097f26c069564c92cea;hb=8763cc5d2a566cfa3de2624addf37ffe3888f2a9

...so you can rsync an (unmounted) device to a file, and when your
original disk fails, dd the file back to a new device.