Something like LFS under Linux with Snapshot capabilities might be useful in this kind of case, because you can leverage this to back up a file at a particular slice in time. However, if that slice is taken in the middle of transaction committing to disk, you are likely to still run into trouble, but not something that couldn't likely be cleaned up later with something like lib/python/ZODB/fsrecover.py or something similar... Sean -----Original Message----- From: Paul Horbal [mailto:horbal@atips.ca] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:23 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Backup & restore zope Is it really necessary to stop Zope when copying Data.fs? Assuming no one is logged in to your management interface and you don't have any pages that could alter Data.fs (or don't expect any changes at backup time) is it a problem? I have a script which backs up Data.fs to another machine on a nightly basis (usually around 3 am). The script makes 7 backups, keeping one for each day of the week. Is it conceivable that I could run into trouble if I don't stop Zope while the backup runs? P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham King" <Graham.King@team.ozemail.com.au> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: RE: [Zope] Backup & restore zope
Just take a live snapshot of your ../var/Data.fs (as the crucial part).
To restore: stop Zope, copy this file in place, start Zope.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Kutter [mailto:jim@ebizq.net] Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 12:42 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Backup & restore zope
Hi folks - how does one go about backing up and restoring a production Zope server?
-jim
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