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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++