Daily backup failure + potential changes
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I’d much rather it was kept to daily, I remember (if my memory is being nice) that we actually have had to go back to the backup at least once, and so much can happen in just a day. Heck, I’d even take an hour long backup over risking losing a weeks work. Especially for the more active players who can hatch hundreds of eggs a day.
Ofc I’m also a chronic saver so that may effect my view.
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QUOTE originally posted by Trebor
1) No changes please until the current (revised) analysis comes back and can be vetted. Right now knowing that you don't know isn't nearly enough to propose this change, in my opinion.
2) Are daily backups expected to continue to remain around 20 minutes, increase slightly, continue to increase, or decrease in some way once you figure out if/how to make them happen completely?
3) What is the increased risk to once per week backups vs daily? If all users would literally lose a week of effort (especially trades, special hatches and the like), I think that would get a hard NO from most users.
As I am 99% online daily over backup, and am thus affected at least as much as anyone else, the security of knowing I would at most lose a days worth of effort as things stand right now if something catastrophic should happen, is very much worth not being able to play for even half an hour a day.
What about biweekly? I feel like it's a good compromise.
I don't understand. What's been going on? I might be a lil bit stupid but the post didn't really say what's happened, something about the shelter and the back-ups not working?
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If the back up moved to weekly wouldn't that mean the back up time would be more then the 20min it is now though?
QUOTE originally posted by Rokon
I don't understand. What's been going on? I might be a lil bit stupid but the post didn't really say what's happened, something about the shelter and the back-ups not working?
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You could do a back up once a week, and back up right before and update, but i prefer daily backups it is more safe.
QUOTE originally posted by Frostleaf
If the back up moved to weekly wouldn't that mean the back up time would be more then the 20min it is now though?
QUOTE originally posted by Garthic
Doing it once a week would not change the amount of time that the backup would take, for reference. It would just change how often we do it.
It doesn't affect us at all.
That's why we're asking you guys for your opinion :)
QUOTE originally posted by Kiryu
Even if it is a pain in the butt, I really prefer the security of daily backups rather than taking the chances of a weekly backup.
Even if it's wonderful that we've never needed the backups so far, if the time does come one day that we do..................that's 7 days of progress, potentially. 7 days of melans, 7 days of dex progress, 7 days of interactions, IP, breeding, everything.
Unless there's a sufficient way of restoring what has been lost (which would be hard to prove, I could imagine, besides maybe ZC bought from the site itself) I still vote for daily backups.
Unless, of course, I am misunderstanding what the consequences of a crash/etc would be, which is very possible. :P I've never known of the effects in detail since it's never happened nor have I seen explained in much detail besides Oh It'd Probably Be Bad
QUOTE originally posted by Narflunk
When the back up got to the part where it saved the shelter data, it would crash, preventing the back up from continuing. Also it crashed in a way that didn't notify anyone of the crash. Things that were scheduled to be backed up after the shelter ended up not being backed up at all.
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