nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-
I cannot understand why anyone would do something like this. Why do such a thing instead of just shutting down the BBS, then updating, and then restarting it? Makes no sense to me.
Why would you shut the board down when you can just lock your message bases and do a backup? Doesn't make sense to me.
Because, as you said yourself, it reduces risks. File corruption,
invalid backup, etc. If you've got locked/open files, are you really
getting a backup of everything? Plus, it's significantly more
work/hassle to do it that way. <SHRUG>
... As a matter of fact, it IS a banana in my pocket.
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