Hi Gitte, I'm not sure you really need to! Are you concerned about backing up Data.fs in the middle of a write? Because of the way FileStorage works objects are added to the end, the worst case is that you'd lose the last transaction. However, to be squeaky clean, you could: stop Zope restart Zope in "readonly" mode (./start -r) backup stop Zope restart Zope in "read/write" mode. -steve On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 04:30 AM, Gitte Wange wrote:
Hello,
I have created a little cron script that creates a daily tarball from my entire Zope dir. But in order to do this I must stop Zope - create the tarball and then start Zope again.
I now that Zope will only be down for about 2 minutes or so but customers don't like that :-)
So I was wondering if there was a way to do a daily backup without stopping Zope ?
Regards,
-- Gitte Wange Jensen
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