On Thursday 06 October 2011 20:04:57 Timothy J Massey wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/06/2011 01:21:29 PM: > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com> > > wrote: > > Personally, I feel that compression has no place in backups. Back > > when we were highly limited in capacity by terrible analog devices > > (i.e. tape!) I used it from necessity. Now, I just throw bigger > > hard drives at it and am thankful. :) > > > > No, it makes perfect sense for backuppc where the point is to keep > > as much history as possible online in a given space. > > No, the point of backup is to be able to *restore* as much historical data > as possible. Keeping the data is not the important part. Restoring it > is. Anything that is between storing data and *restoring* that data is in > the way of that job.
Actually the point of a backup is to restore the most recent version of <something> from just before the trouble (whatever that might be). Storing or restoring historical data is called an archive. Interestingly most commercial archive-solutions advertise their (certified) long-term archive but never the ability to get back that data. Makes you wonder... Have fun, Arnold
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