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Originally Posted by Inverness
Backups as a whole seem to be unnecessary to you, since you haven't made any backups yourself  . Though, I think once per day is a good interval. |
No need to get snippy, Inverness. I don't back anything up because downloading files more than 1mb crashes my RC, 9 times out of 10.
In the rest of the scripting world, the number of times you back up data is proportionate to when the most changes occur (if data is updated weekly, there's no need to make daily backups), and sometimes how likely it is that you will need to restore that data (if you're not concerned with frequent server crashes). The only times Valikorlia has ever needed to restore back ups are when a staff member deletes everything in a hissy fit, and when the NPC server crashes. The first one happens more often than the latter, and the latter is only a problem because we're not using SQLite databases.
If you want to back-up all the information twice a day, or once a day, go ahead. I don't see the need for such paranoia, and am fine with weekly backups.