more server side tasks

Douglas.Arellanesmdlf.org wrote:
> I suppose the result of the backup would be a file that
gathers all the
> content of the database up to the time of the backup.
If the question is
> whether to have a backup from a certain point or not,
I'm agnostic. But
> the main use for the backup would be for security, for
example, so that
> the station isn't completely hosed in the event of a
hard disk failure.

so, it's a total / complete backup, overwriting the
previous one if it
exists?

> The key here is ease of use for non-technical station
personnel, as
> we're likely to encounter in Freetown. If we're
lucky, they will know

but those people will tend to forget to save the backup file
anyway, and
their backup hard disk is going to be full in two weeks.
which will ruin
their LS system, as they won't allocate a separate HD /
partition for
this task, so they simply run out of disk space...

> that the network personnel have set the system to back
up every
> Wednesday (for example), and in the event that they
need to restore the
> database they will know that the file is in this spot
on the filesystem.
> Not much else.

I see.

has anyone actually asked for such a feature, or we're
making this one up?

> Hope this is more of what you had in mind, Akos 

yes. as you have seen, it's important to specify in detail,
as my
implied thinkig, along with Tomas' was, that this would be
an
incremental backup, for example, not a complete one...


Akos