On Friday 07 October 2011 01:41:45 Holger Parplies wrote: > 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".
No, that case of archiving documents and communications to fulfill legal requirements is called an _archive_! And while such a thing works well on paper (and for paper-documents, provided you are good friends with the archive-lady), try to access any old electronic n a company after they switched from lotus to SAP in between. Still the data is archived according to the law. > 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? No one wants a backup. Everyone only wants restore. Good thing backuppc can do backups that don't get in your way, restore that works simply by clicking in a web-interface and additionally write complete dumps to archive-media... Have fun, Arnold
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