Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

[l0f4r0@tuta.io]

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