[Box Backup] Overall goal for BoxBackup

Peter Harrison boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:43:58 +1300


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:02, Joe Krahn wrote:
> My feeling is that any complete backup tool should be able to back up a
> complete system. However, Boxbackup and it's users seem to be interested
> in just user-file backups, not system backups.

=46rom my perspective most of the content of the box is operating system an=
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applications. They can be recovered. Keeping an image of every machine woul=
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be expensive and pointless. The idea is to back up business critical data -=
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data you can't get back. Thats just me though :)

> Are other BoxBackup users/developers not interested in system backups?
> Or is it just a low-priority?

Low priority for me anyway - can't speak for others.