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+- have a way to recover cell structure for DR
+- integration of databases
+- list of files in backup dump to present to users for recovery
+- new more stable incarnation of butc with capability ofplugging in site specific backup systems
+- think f very loose coupling (not t tight integration), so that customizing for site backup system remains manageble
+- take simplest form of backup (vos dump, full & incremental), extract metadata, use site BS
+- have more snapshots or PIT RO clones 
+- could we have CoW file histories?
+- have -omitdirs for backup/butc
+- vos dump with only diffs per file dumped
+- revisit XBSA API for conecting site BS
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+- revisit reverse incr backup? not doing 2 consec full backups, but having an incremental
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+generaly: 
+ - DR capability
+ - incidental single file restore
+ - file-level differential
+ - support for different front ends
+ - conserve (at least)) current backup policy
+ - not neccesarily need server local disk for backup