Hi there,
Just a quick question for today!
I have an always-on task that does some data scraping and saving to db every ~17 seconds. It saves a good number of new Django objects to the db (~100 - 500, in about 8 save
/bulk_create
/update
functions) in about 3 seconds or rarely 4-10 seconds if an API rate limit is hit. These objects are all related, and it is important that the full set is saved each time.
I'd like to schedule daily database backups, or even just manual ones without having to keep stopping and starting the task each time. Do you think the task will interfere with the db backup process or that the db backup will contain an incomplete set of entries?
If so, do you have any advice on how to check that the always-on task is on its 17 second break, or to pause the task automatically when I create a backup?
Thanks for your help!
George "Kirkmania" Kirkman