Areca Backup [LSARC/2008/681 Self Review]

[David Zhang]

Additionally, please see how many emails I got from the community via 
attachment.
I can not change your decide, however the fact of open our solaris is to 
let people use it and get more useful tool instead of developing it by 
ourselves.

David
>
>> To me this is not acceptable, this makes it totally useless for 
>> Solaris backup if it can't do a simple thing like this.
> It is not a system wide backup tool, it could be suitable for a file or
> a folder from which user want to backup his movie/file/data.
> It is widely used and quite active, I usually get over 20 emails per
> week from it's discussion group.
> Linux people can use it to backup and restore their files and people
> keep asking questions for this project.
>>
>> What about ACLs on UFS and ZFS ?
>> What about extended attribute files (ZFS and UFS) ?
>> What about system attribute files (ZFS only) ?
> It's not supported, except file permission, user and group on Unix.
> I think the reason is Linux platform does not have ZFS. It works well on
> personal backup but may not suitable for system backup.
>>
>> For this to be included in Solaris it needs to be actually useful as 
>> a Backup program that means it needs to be able to actually backup 
>> the content we can create on Solaris without loss.  Without support 
>> for file permissions, links, ACLs and extended attributes I can not 
>> approve of this case being integrated into Solaris - particularly 
>> since the bundled tar & cpio archivers already support that.
>>
>> Does this work with NDMP ?
> It does not support NDMP.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>

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