massive disk space leak vs thresh_update

[Tom Allison]

David Relson wrote:
> 
> Why are you doing daily backups?  The usual reason is to avoid problems
> with corrupted databases.  I've been running daily backups for a year
> (or more), because I _have_ experienced corruption, though not in a long
> time.  The integrity of transactions has the promise of making backups
> unnecessary, except to protect against hardware failures.

I am doing weekly backups since I don't train much anymore, just read.


Basically, it's cheap and the crontab has been running for a year. 
Didn't see any real need to remove it.