On: Cron-based backup for SQLite

[amcvitty]

Not an expert but the transaction log is in another file and you’d need both to be in line with each other and backed up, so perhaps that’s a factor

[benbjohnson → amcvitty]

I wrote up a bit longer explanation of the failure modes (which depend on your journaling mode) in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31387447