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10 things that block your Happiness (programming.dev)
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10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.
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[โ€“] Kojichan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yikes! Thanks for the tip. I'm just starting to learn about Postgres. Think I'll stick with MySQL or SQLite for now... :o

[โ€“] umbraroze@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Choosing to not use something is not a good way to learn how to use it.

In this particular instance, the lesson is to either a) use the provided database tools (e.g. pg_dumpall) for live backup, or b) bring the database cluster down before you backup the raw data folder.