

Depending on the situation, it could even be acceptable to setup a recurrent period – once a week, for example – to issue a system reboot. Despite the common belief, the practice of programming a system reboot or shutdown of a client or server machine isn’t necessarily a bad thing: in some limited scenario planning a regular shutdown or reboot of the operating system could be a decent workaround to securely put the machine in a desired state – for example, to make it ready for a VM-based backup or for installing a planned update.
