Hi Jeffrey, hi all,

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-08-31 18:41:18 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
Problems with hardlink-based backups...]:
> [...]
> This is getting ridiculous. Who cares?

I do (even if I'm quoting out of context).

Frankly, this discussion has been ridiculous from the start ... err ...
restart, I should say. If you ask me, your contribution to this effect has
been, let's say, well-sized.

None of the arguments I've heard are new. Most of them do not convince me.
Nothing is based on real observations, but rather on assumptions "how things
will be".

My recommendation: take a break from this thread and code something instead.
If you feel the need, then do it. I certainly don't, because I don't believe
your arguments are valid. Les has argued against them, and I don't feel a need
to repeat what he has pointed out. You don't respond to the arguments, so it
appears to be useless in any case. How do you ensure consistency between
database content and file system content? Please answer that, for once!

Go ahead, prove me wrong. Maybe I'm just to blind to see what is evident to
you, but you won't convince me by reiterating the same old assumptions. Show
me!


The one thing that makes sense to me - to a certain degree - is joining attrib
files into one database. This also gives you a single point of failure - the
corruption you had with your attrib files could have made the whole database
unusable instead of only a single attrib file for one directory. Sure, you
*can* back it up, you would probably *have to* for any reasonable amount of
robustness. Just to be clear: putting the pc/ directory structure inside a
database *does not* make sense to me. Not even maybe.

That aside, I'm looking forward to your experiences with storing your database
on a file system mounted via NFS (we *were* talking about a solution that
"fits everyone's needs", not only yours, weren't we?) and random other
complications that *arbitrary* BackupPC installations may add.


Just some thoughts out of many, most of which I've already forgotten while
reading all of this thread (why did I read it? Valid question. I don't know.).

Regards,
Holger

P.S.: Tino suggested moving this to backuppc-devel. I think we have a more
      suited place ... $TopDir/trash ...

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