Subj : Re: Backup mystic
To   : Gamgee
From : esc
Date : Mon Mar 27 2023 10:55 pm

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

Yep! For sure. I don't disagree with your logic here, and it has me rethinking some things.

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

My only concern would be that I don't think Mystic gives any sort of "we're going to have an outage in 30 minutes" thing, but it's not like users would really care. *shrug*

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