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Fire and forget mode

Pro

• Easy to deploy, you may just install the application via usual mechanisms and let it run
• Nothing to configure for externalizing backups

Con

• In this mode, backups stay local so they only allow to get back to a previous state after a local issue but obviously if the underlying host fail, backups are also lost in this mode
• If you havent provisionned enough space for backups, starving situation may occur preventing backups to run