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Hi, I run a few game servers but I kind of need to back them up while they are running, is there something suitable.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That depends. Some applications and backups are aware of each other, and the application can quiesce to provide the backup a snapshot that won't be modified while it's being read. Sometimes this is done at the filesystem level too. For a VM, capturing the running state accomplishes the same thing (though the server may be surprised when a restore happens and suddenly all the clients are gone).

Bottom line, it depends on the server architecture.