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Does the frequent backup affect the performance of the DB hourly?
Does the frequent backup affect the performance of the DB hourly?
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Written by Brent Sanders
Updated over a week ago

There can be a few seconds that would lock your database - to prevent this, you should enable to option to 'skip locking tables'.
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Otherwise, there can be CPU/RAM spikes, but we use Ottomatik to back up Ottomatik's databases every hour and there are no noticeable effects.

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