On Sat, 10 May 2008 08:07:25 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > At least I wouldn't store everything in the same directory. It would > of course be a good idea to seperate things.
<sigh> When did I ever mention using a single directory to mix up all backups? All I did was answer a question with an example of when different OSes may need to share a backup medium and you decided to get all evangelical about it. If you live and work in a heterogeneous environment, sometimes you have to find heterogeneous solutions. > > A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be > > parochial about the origin of the data it stores. > > But because there are different requirements (features of the > filesystems), what you're saying is not correct. Read back to what I first said. Because of the different requirements and features of filesystems, what /i first said is absolutely correct, that backup methods that rely on the underlying filesystem have their limitations. > And why do you make such a fuss about such a natural thing? There's > just no reason in sharing such a device/filesystem/"storage endpoint" > between different operating systems. Where did I state that a storage endpoint should be shared? Different archive formats in different directories do not constitute a shared endpoint. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses
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