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smitty
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Symform and Raspberry Pi

Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:14 pm

Has anyone looked into running Symform (http://www.symform.com/) on a Raspberry or Banana Pi with an external hard drive? Symform is a free peer to peer backup solution. They have a deb file for x86 processors but I don't see anything for ARM. I haven't done to much with with emulator, do you think a Raspberry Pi with QEMU running Debian x86, which would have Symform on it would work? Usually when I google something I find other people who have already done what I am trying to do, but for this I didnt really find anything.

Right now I am using a Banana Pi as a Time Capsule with a 4 TB drive. I would like to use Symform to have my backups stored somewhere externally in case of a fire etc.

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Re: Symform and Raspberry Pi

Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:38 pm

The Banana Pi has no relation to the RPi different CPU Architecture ;)

The RPi can not run an Emulator to run X86 Debian ;)
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Re: Symform and Raspberry Pi

Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:48 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote:The RPi can not run an Emulator to run X86 Debian ;)
It depends how you define "run". As it can emulate a completely alien CPU for some very small values of "run".

The Hercules emulator for an IBM mainframe gets the incredible performance of a high end processor that was considered the fastest of the fast forty five years ago. It really does wind Moore's Law back a long way.
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Re: Symform and Raspberry Pi

Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:09 pm

DougieLawson wrote:
fruitoftheloom wrote:The RPi can not run an Emulator to run X86 Debian ;)
It depends how you define "run". As it can emulate a completely alien CPU for some very small values of "run".

The Hercules emulator for an IBM mainframe gets the incredible performance of a high end processor that was considered the fastest of the fast forty five years ago. It really does wind Moore's Law back a long way.
Have you got nothing better to do than be picky :?:
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Re: Symform and Raspberry Pi

Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:21 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote:
DougieLawson wrote:
fruitoftheloom wrote:The RPi can not run an Emulator to run X86 Debian ;)
It depends how you define "run". As it can emulate a completely alien CPU for some very small values of "run".

The Hercules emulator for an IBM mainframe gets the incredible performance of a high end processor that was considered the fastest of the fast forty five years ago. It really does wind Moore's Law back a long way.
Have you got nothing better to do than be picky :?:
What's wrong with a bit of pedantry?

The OP may be willing to set something running today and come back to the answer next week. It will run, it won't perform well.
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