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

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