sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote at 2003-3-28 14:18 -0800:
Copying a FileStorage while transactions are being appended to the end of it potentially means that the copy completes with before the transaction commit is totally flushed to the file, so there is always the possibility that your backup is going to need to have half-written transactions manually truncated to be used on either a replica or a new Zope/ZSS instance; this isn't that big of a deal ....
When I understand this right, then this is done automatically when the "FileStorage" is opened. I refer to a question in the mailing list: Someone reported many files with strange extensions in his "var" folder. A ZODB developer (Jeremy?) replied they were incomplete transaction records found when the storage was opened. Dieter