massive disk space leak vs thresh_update

[Matthias Andree]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> 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.

Backups never hurt as long as they're recoverable.

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Matthias Andree