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[–] msage 5 points 3 months ago

And no one ever tried to restore it.

Happened to me as well, after a year I learned incremental DB backups were wrongly offset by GMT diff, so we were losing hours every time. Fun.

Luckily we never needed them.

And now we have Postgres with WAL archiving and I sleep so much better.