You could be right, it might well produce a consistent backup. If fact, I'd be very surprised if it didn't. But doing that misses the point of rqlite, of course

You could be right, it might well produce a consistent backup. If fact, I'd be very surprised if it didn't. But doing that misses the point of rqlite, of course. rqlite replicates the database to other machines, after every transaction, without copying the entire sqlite file everytime.