Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using
Ooops@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Isn’t that the whole point of containerised solutions? Having some pre-setup, auto-updating solution with very little requirement to dive into the details like what your database is and which dependencies you need to manage…
dan@upvote.au 23 hours ago
You still need to know what database system is being used in order to make backups of the database. You can’t just snapshot or backup the data directory while a database is running, because you might end up with an inconsistent state that won’t restore properly. You need to either stop the DB before doing the backup, or use the relevant DB-specific tools to perform a backup.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Most of my containerized solutions do that for me.
dan@upvote.au 20 hours ago
Which containers do automatic backups?
Ooops@feddit.org 22 hours ago
So one in five doesn’t do proper backups. That’s much better than expected… 😅
dan@upvote.au 20 hours ago
I’d say 9/10 aren’t doing proper backups given most people don’t actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups!