On Thursday 06 October 2011 20:04:57 Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 10/06/2011 01:21:29 PM:
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT 
> > 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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