On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT 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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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