Feature Request: Option to Backup When Close Lightroom

I would like to see the option added in Catalog Settings - General in Backup to have the option to automatically backup Lightroom when you exit Lightroom in addition to the other options. This seems logical to me since when you just completed your new work is when you care the most about backing up. I would have the option to ask: Backup Now or not - so that if you just went into Lightroom to just look at something without doing any work - you don't need to backup then. Or - even better - only ask if actual changes were made in Lightroom (I am assuming the program will know if you do anything or not).
Thanks - Cathy

While I do understand that there are still processes going when finishing a session I can see the benefit of doing the autobackup of the catalog database on ending.
I'm not a database guy but I do work with Access at the office and anytime I change a value in one of the cells it automatically changes the database. On the one hand, when sharing values between programs, it is handy to have the database file change and autosave. On the otherhand there's no "Ooops, made a mistake" going back. So 'Caution' in the keyword on this. It also doesn't help matters when others can be in the same database changing values at the same time (such is how the IT people have made it). But in the case of LR there is only the one user active at anytime.
The main reason I can see this as being beneficial is to insure against machine crashes. Then again, if the computer crashes in the midst of writing the backup there's the potential for a major corruption of the file.
So there are definite benefits and downfalls to an autobackup on quitting.

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