3 Apr
2020
3 Apr
'20
3:53 p.m.
On 4/3/20 8:34 AM, John Pierce wrote:
Do note, backup systems that use rsync or similar file by file copies of a running system do not make coherent atomic snapshots, so things like relational databases should be excluded from those, and backed by database tools
Long ago I learned to back up databases by dumping them (with a flag "lock" or similar to make sure no changed are made during dump), and backing up dump file.
Just my 2 cents.
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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