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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:47:08 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil+venti backup question
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On Thu Mar 29 07:12:11 EDT 2007, uriel99@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes, but then you wont have permanent snapshots, I very much recommend
> using venti, among other reasons because even in case of your fossil
> getting corrupted (which is not unheard of, specially if you run out
> of space), you can always restore the last snap from venti.

the solution to fossil corrupting itself is to fix fossil, not to 
insist on venti.

automatic archival snapshots are a great feature, but my personal 
experience has been that venti is not resistant to unexpected
power failure.

so i don't think that venti+fossil is a better solution than
just fossil in every situation.  not everyone has a dedicated
fs on a ups.

- erik