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codetrotter on Aug 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

> you should always verify that before relying on this functionality in production

Yep :)

At said company where I was using ZFS snapshots for the servers I administered, I additionally had a nightly cron job to dump the db using the tools that shipped with the DBMS. Just in case something with the ZFS snapshots fricked itself :)

sitkack on Aug 24, 2023 [–]

Smart.

I did a daily dump of my prod database to my local workstation, needed it for prod corruption issue because ops was only doing weeklies.

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