Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-10-06 18:17:06 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bad md5sums due to zero size (uncompressed) cpool files - WEIRD BUG]: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote: > > > >> > 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). > > Yes, but throw in the fact that it may take some unpredictable amount > of time after the 'trouble' (which could have been accidentally > deleting a rarely used file) before anyone notices and you see why you > need some history available to restore from the version just before > the trouble.
I think you've all got it wrong. The real *point* of a backup is ... whatever the person doing the backup wants it for. For some people that might just be being able to say, "hey, we did all we could to preserve the data as long as legally required - too bad it didn't work out". Usually, it seems to be sufficient that the data is stored, but some of us really *do* want to be able to *restore* it, too, while others are doing backups mainly for watching the progress. Fine. That's what the flexibility of BackupPC is for, right? Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
