Subj : Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : Nightfox
From : Mandarax
Date : Wed Dec 07 2022 17:09:24

 Ni> I wonder how they do their daily backups?  I imagine it would be best to
 Ni> power down the machine to do the backup (which means some downtime
 Ni> daily).  Also, if backups are daily, what if they do a backup when it's
 Ni> in a bad state?  Normally, backups should be in a good working

  The backups are complete image of the server.  It saves more than 1 backup.  So to have all the backup all fail and be bad would not be likely.  There is no server downtime.  My linux server has been up and running without reboot or shutown for 8 months right now.


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