Peter Walter 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.

Backing up other backuppc servers is really a special case that might 
deserve a special optimization.   But, I'm not sure that adding a 
database automatically makes it any easier - unless you are thinking of 
a common database that could arbitrate a common hashed filename that is 
unique across all instances for every piece of content.  That's an 
interesting idea but seems kind of fragile.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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