On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:42:43 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > 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.
Perhaps, but that has nothing to do with whether the host is down or up - any time you're doing a recovery, you're going to run into this issue, insofar as it's an issue. Celejar
