I don’t refer that, the way it is cut the pull down force will de laminate the wood because only the glue between 2 layers is what is going to hold everything together.

As some other users were pointing it is also possible that the glue in recent years is better than the one I recall when I was a child

It could be, as I said before I am not the woodworking guy. Perhaps the glue improved in the last 30 years but I am pretty sure that my father wouldn’t like how it is cut :)

Not a woodworking guy but son of one.

If the picture you presented is representative, then make the cut of the wood in the other direction (not in the direction the wood layers). That piece of wood is either glued or / compressed. And in the way it is cut, if you hang heavy stuff there is a real possibility that wood layers are separated by brute force because is the glue which holds all together will not be enough.

But it is fine if you want to hang something small like a hammer.

You will need to explain a bit further this statement to mild knowledged internet stranger…

Because the point of waf is exactly about reducing the exposed surface…

Some clarifications :

The 3 2 1 rule applies only for the data. Not the backup, in my case I have the real/live data, then a daily snapshot in the same volume /pool and a external off-site backup

For the databases you got misleading information, you can copy the files as they are BUT you need to be sure that the database is not running (you could copy the data and n the middle of a transaction leading to some future problems) AND when you restore it, you need to restore to the exact same database version.

Using the export functionality you ensure that the data is not corrupted (the database ensure the correctness of the data) and the possibility to restore to another database version.

My suggestion, use borgbackup or any other backup system with de duplication, stop the docker to ensure no corruptions and save everything. Having a downtime of a minute every day is usually not a deal breaker for home users