Backing up a live server

Hi, it's my understanding that using Time Machine is a no-no on an OS X server running OD.
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Backing up a live server isn't the issue. What is an issue is backing up live services - there is a difference.
In other words, what matters is the specific services you're running on your server since each of them may have pre-requisites for backing up.
For example - Apache doesn't care - copy the site configuration files and content as you like. MySQL, on the other hand, cannot be backed-up live since the data is never at rest.
So you need to examine which services you are running on your machine in order to determine how best to backup your server.

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