[Zope] Re: backup full instances

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:15:27 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:

i'll change that to backup a local copy of the Data.fs instead in future. a simple solution would be to run 'cp Data.fs Data.fs.safe' for every instance just before backuppc starts the rsync process.

We use the repozo backup (and restore) tool that comes with Zope and include the backup repository in our normal backup regime (which uses backuppc). <zopeinstalldir>/bin/repozo.py Read inside the file for the doco. This tool is designed to work with live Data.fs files. Apart from some sort of live replication, it is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned, unless you are unconcerned about the possibility of corrupted backups. Cheers, Sam.