Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

From	l0f4r0@tuta.io
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades
Date	2020-05-12 12:20 +0200
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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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Re: Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-05-12 07:00 +0200
  Re: Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> - 2020-05-12 07:30 +0200
    Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-13 15:10 +0200
  Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-05-12 08:20 +0200
    Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> - 2020-05-12 08:30 +0200
      Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-12 11:10 +0200
        Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-12 12:10 +0200
          Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-12 12:20 +0200
          Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-12 16:40 +0200
            Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-12 17:10 +0200
              Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-12 17:20 +0200
              Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-05-13 05:10 +0200
                Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 06:40 +0200
                Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-13 10:00 +0200
                Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-13 10:20 +0200
                Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-05-13 06:50 +0200
        Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 03:20 +0200
      Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-05-12 13:50 +0200
        Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-05-12 14:00 +0200
        Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-05-12 14:00 +0200
        Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-12 18:00 +0200
          Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> - 2020-05-12 21:30 +0200
            Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-12 22:50 +0200
              Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> - 2020-05-12 23:50 +0200
                Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-13 00:20 +0200

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