On Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:22:16 PM Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:53:30 -0400 > Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Another advantage is that it lets you access a host's files even when > > that host is down (as long as the backup server is up, which is likely > > to always be the case). > > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but why can't you do that > with ordinary forward deltas, as long as all the necessary information > is stored with the backups? > Are you saying that classic forward-delta > based systems don't store backup metadata (or whatever the right term > is) on the backup server, but on the host? I don't think he is saying that (but I could be wrong) (and I think that is pretty clear from subsequent comments, but I wanted to perhaps make it a little more clear), iiuc, he's just pointing out things like the overhead on recovery when you have to take the base file and apply the forward deltas to it. > What happens, then, if the > host's storage is unrecoverable?
