Les Mikesell wrote:

> Somehow I don't see how having to install, tune, and maintain an 
> otherwise unneeded database fits into the concept of abstracting away 
> functionality.  You have to live with filesystems anyway so you might as 
> well learn how to manage them.
>   
Les has been a strong advocate for his position. However, backuppc as it 
is currently designed does not meet my need to remotely backup all kinds 
of  computers, including other backuppc servers. I think the 
enhancements Jeffrey Kosowsky and I have outlined in this discussion 
would solve my problem, as well as a number of other problems, would 
significantly extend the functionality of backuppc, and also make it 
compatible with other platforms. I am therefore going to take this 
discussion over to the backuppc-devel and ask Craig what he and others 
over there think. Hopefully, I can sucker a perl developer to start 
coding it as an add-on to the current development release.

Peter

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