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As do filesystems. Yet I've seen anyone argue that cutting the power is the recommended way of doing backups. In fact the opposite, make sure to use an UPS jus
by tjoff 7y ago
As do filesystems. Yet I've seen anyone argue that cutting the power is the recommended way of doing backups.
In fact the opposite, make sure to use an UPS just so that you can shutdown cleanly in the unfortunate event.
For example: https://blogs.oracle.com/paulie/backing-up-mysql-using-zfs-snapshots-and-clones https://blogs.oracle.com/paulie/backing-up-mysql-using-zfs-s...
- wmf 7y agoSome people came up with the idea of "crash-only software", arguing that it's better to maintain one code path (recovering from a crash) than two (clean start and recovery), but it hasn't caught on that much. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/candea/candea_html/index.html https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...
- paulddraper 7y agoGoogle follows this, I believe