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Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Most of my containerized solutions do that for me.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Which containers do automatic backups?
  
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Ooops@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So one in five doesn’t do proper backups. That’s much better than expected… 😅

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!
  
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  - monogram@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    90% is a bit low if the requirement is a full backup of nextcloud with database that is easily restorable.
    
    Most just copy the important stuff manually to an external hard drive.
    
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