Austin Matzko's Forum » Topic: New Feature Request? Self-aware backup http://austinmatzko.com/forum/topic/new-feature-request-self-aware-backup Austin Matzko's Forum » Topic: New Feature Request? Self-aware backup en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:48:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2855 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://austinmatzko.com/forum/search.php filosofo on "New Feature Request? Self-aware backup" http://austinmatzko.com/forum/topic/new-feature-request-self-aware-backup#post-3998 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:19 +0000 filosofo 3998@http://austinmatzko.com/forum/

It's an interesting idea, but I think it would be difficult to implement. That's because practically every database for a public blog is going to change somewhat all the time: if nothing else, spam or moderated comments will accrue. The trick would be determining what changing things are important to users, and I'm afraid that the potential harms---the wrong decisions about what's important, the processing power used to figure out if the database has changed, the increased likelihood that someone will lose the prior backup, among others---would outweigh any benefits.

spackletoe on "New Feature Request? Self-aware backup" http://austinmatzko.com/forum/topic/new-feature-request-self-aware-backup#post-3997 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:25:01 +0000 spackletoe 3997@http://austinmatzko.com/forum/

Hi,

I think it would be great if, say there was an option to NOT backup the DB is there hadn't been any changes since the last backup.

Say I have weekly backups emailed to me, but there hasn't been a post or comment on my blog in a week, it shouldn't back the whole thing up again, right?

Anyway, just a thought. Thanks!

-joe