aussant Posted September 24, 2003 Report Share Posted September 24, 2003 Are there any plans to port the current Linux client to the PPC based systems aswell as the existing x86 systems? I have a triple boot system (OS X, OS 9, Gentoo Linux) and would like to back up the entire system using Retrospect. Booting the system in Gentoo Linux and then launching a OS X shell (using MacOnLinux) I'd like to be able to back up the Gentoo Linux partition using the familiar Retrospect software. I'm not sure if a common binary of the Linux client for PPC would support the various distributions of Linux that are available on the PPC architecture. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphyatgenome Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 I second the motion for PPC Linux client support. We would like to port some of our PPC machines to Linux, and it would be convenient to have this feature. Unfortunately, I suspect this market might be rather small .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jslove Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 I am very interested in a PPC linux client. I have Retrospect Server 5.1 running on Mac OS X Server, with a service contract. It is primarily a file server for a bunch of clients running Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. I have two web servers serving web sites to the world, and they are running Debian Linux (woody) on a pair of G3/350 B&Ws, for which I am too cheap to buy additional Mac OS X Server licenses. I would really like to be able to run Retrospect Clients on those PPC Linux machines. Incremental backups would be much better than what I am doing now with huge tar files. I have found PPC support on other distributions (e.g., SuSE) to lag disappointingly behind x86 support, but not with Debian. Maintaining upgrades and security updates is alarmingly simple, too. I don't think an audience for this would be as small as this thread would lead you to suppose. -- Spencer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjnorton Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 I'm a Linux newbie, so this is probably a silly question, but is there no way to use the Retrospect Linux clients on PPC machines? I've just installed Yellow Dog Linux on an old beige G3 to be a web server, and I would really like to include it in my existing Retrospect backup scheme. What alternatives do I have? TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 Hi Anything is worth a try but I doubt it will work. The linux client is designed for i386 architecture linux machines. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerk Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I will forth (heh, sorry for the pun but other ppc linux peeps might get it -- it's not a typo -- really) the nomination for a PPC backup client. There is a lot of PPC hardware out there running linux, and not all small potato workstations either . . . IBM pSeries comes to mind off the top of my head. The i386 clients ones wont work for many reasons ... they are binaries compiled for a different architecture, there will be endiness issues (byte swap order) as x86 is little endian, where most other linux compatible processors (PPC, Sparc, ARM) are big endian. You _might_ be able to get it work with something like qemu on ppc, but it's not a good solution and chances are it wouldn't work as expected For proper PPC support this would require dantz to recompile clients specifically on ppc (and likely make a lot of code changes to support the endianess stuff, etc). I use PPC linux boxen exclusively and right now the only real backup software option I have is Storix, but I would _love_ to have all my machines running retrospect and backing up to the same hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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