By brad136083
I see it has been 15 days since I turned on automatic backups, however there still isn’t one backup in the system. How often should I expected backups. Isn’t a backup system that never backs anything up pretty worthless?
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And over 1 year later this is still an issue. My automatic backups work sometimes 2 times per month and sometimes once per 3 months. It’s pretty much pointless to even consider that you can benefit from automatic backups.
Do yourself a favor and setup your own backup system.
Sorry, but I really was looking into using this feature (and having to re-create my server *uff) - but it’s pointless if it’s this unreliable. Pity.
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