So, it turns out that the Steam release got the attention of several DBA's such as myself.
I've already got some familiarity with the code, as I was going over it to learn more about front-end programming, but I am already quite familiar with MySQL (and PostgreSQL, though I don't see backend code for that yet).
The backup lag looks to me like it may be a table locking issue, and if it is MySQL on the backend could be due to some tables being MyISAM tables. I know several paths to clean up the backup process.
I'll watch this thread, or you can contact me by e-mail.
I've already got some familiarity with the code, as I was going over it to learn more about front-end programming, but I am already quite familiar with MySQL (and PostgreSQL, though I don't see backend code for that yet).
The backup lag looks to me like it may be a table locking issue, and if it is MySQL on the backend could be due to some tables being MyISAM tables. I know several paths to clean up the backup process.
I'll watch this thread, or you can contact me by e-mail.