Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice
On Sunday, August 09, 2020 05:53:56 PM Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:42:43 -0400
> rhkramer@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.
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