Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades
Hi,
12 mai 2020 à 12:03 de gheskett@shentel.net:
> I can see a major disaster in the making, what if that reboot was
> commanded in the middle of your nightly backup run, leaving your backup
> program with a totally bogus database it cannot recover from?
>
> Frankly the update shouldn't be allowed if your backup is actually
> running. So it might be safer to schedule the update and reboot if
> needed before the backup starts. That means one cron driven script does
> it all in the sequence desired.
>
Of course, nice reminder from Gene, as usual technology doesn't replace common sense ;)
Binaries simply execute what you ask them to, they don't see the whole picture and what you really intend to do eventually...
Best regards,
l0f4r0
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