> Web applicaties are just static files, right? You can back them up  
> safely. Consult the docs for your database software for backups. We  
> let BackupPC run a script to create SQL dumps of all our databases  
> before starting the backup. Backing up the live database files usually  
> is not guaranteed to get you a consistent state.

It's actually almost guaranteed that you DON'T get a consistent state. ;-)

We don't use BackupPC for database dumps - we've got a parallel
infrastructure for this since pooling the dumps doesn't make sense and
would only bloat our pool. We archive the dumps to tape and only hold
them for some days, then expire them. Since our tapes are expired
exponentially, we gain a backup scheme similar to BackupPCs but save a
lot of disk space.

Tino.

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