Subj : Re: Backup mystic
To   : esc
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Mar 27 2023 09:02 pm

-=> esc wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Agreed on your first sentence... but doesn't having a "wonky" backup
 Ga> kind of defeat the purpose of making/having a backup in the first place?

 es> Yep, 100%. I take multiple backups for redundancy though and
 es> that's how I accept the risk.

Understood, with the caveat of there's some (preventable) risk 
introduced which could be avoided.  Also, everyone's threshold of 
acceptable risk is likely different.  It's *possible* that ALL of those 
redundant backups could be bad.

In the context of the original-ish post of this thread, I can find no 
valid/acceptable reason to *NOT* stop the BBS/server before doing a 
backup.  Especially an incremental (e.g. 'rysnc' type thing) backup, as 
the whole process of shutdown/backup/startup likely takes about a single 
minute.  Even a complete backup might take 5 minutes.



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