On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 10:19:09AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: [...]
> Databases can be a problem because they update all the time so you may not > get a consistent snapshot unless you use the tool specific to the database > to perform a consistent dump to a file, then let backuppc back that up. [...] With the right DBMS and a little bit of setup, rsync is a perfectly fine way of backing up your databases [1]. Even with the wrong DBMS, all it takes is an SQL dump and backing up that (might be expensive with a couple o' 100M records, though). Cheers [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html -- t
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