On 04/13 10:00 , Holger Parplies wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2009-04-13 11:48:40 -0500 [Re: > [BackupPC-users] What is it doing? How to see progess?]: > > In any case, you really do want compression in most cases. > > the only exception that I use, is when you're backing up the local machine. > > This way you can still recover the files even without backuppc. (It would be > > silly to need backuppc to recover the backuppc config files, wouldn't it?) > <snip> > You've got a good point for *the rest of /etc*, though. The BackupPC > configuration files won't be needed unless you have installed BackupPC > and want to use it, other files might be needed before you have the > opportunity of installing BackupPC (on a dedicated backup server, that's > probably the first thing you'll do, but not everyone has one).
Yep. This is my point; that there may be files you need to recover, which then allow you to set up the box to recover the rest of your files. It would be a royal PITA to recover all the files in /etc directly out of the backuppc pool; but at least it's *possible* if the files are uncompressed. (Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, and it pays to be prepared for that eventuality, even if it never happesns.) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
