[tjoff]

As do filesystems. Yet I've seen anyone argue that cutting the power is the recommended way of doing backups.

In fact the opposite, make sure to use an UPS just so that you can shutdown cleanly in the unfortunate event.

For example: https://blogs.oracle.com/paulie/backing-up-mysql-using-zfs-s...

[wmf]

Some people came up with the idea of "crash-only software", arguing that it's better to maintain one code path (recovering from a crash) than two (clean start and recovery), but it hasn't caught on that much. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...

[paulddraper]

Google follows this, I believe