On Sunday, August 09, 2020 05:53:56 PM Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:42:43 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, August 09, 2020 12:22:16 PM Celejar wrote:
> > > 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 Exactly -- I was trying to address your question about needing metadata (or anything) from the host in order to recover files. > - any time you're doing a recovery, you're going to run into this > issue, insofar as it's an issue.
