Marcus Schopen wrote:
Hi there,
is it a good idea to use Amanda to backup ZOPE's physical home directory (/home/zope) while ZOPE is active? Is it critical because of changing data.fs and logfiles while Amanda is trying to do its job?
Now I use rync (http://www.zope.org/Members/jrush/howto_rsync_zope).
Thank you Marcus
Hi Marcus Actually we do use Amanda for Backup. And actually I did also already had to play back a Data.fs after I had wreckaged a Zope installation. All without any problem. Most probably the backup was taken, when Data.fs was not changed at this very moment; so you might say, okay, that's just luck. But, first, Amanda tell's you in the log you get emailed, if ever a file changes during the backup action, and second, Zope appends transactions to the Data.fs. In case you have to handle a corrupt Data.fs, there is a product called *tranalyzer* with which you should be able to truncate the Data.fs in the right way, so that you loose maybe one transaction but not more (however, I didn't test this myself yet). Have a look at: http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/Tranalyzer HTH --Flynt--