--On 27. Oktober 2007 16:29:18 +0200 Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> wrote:
On 26/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
Is it safe in general to copy Data.fs while the instance is running? Or might I end up with a broken Data.fs, which zope is not able to read at all?
If you create a local copy, it is safe. If you rsync a running Data.fs, it is not safe. In this case you create a local copy and rsync the copy.
what's the difference between local copy and rsync except for the time it takes? but if rsync is unsafe only because it takes long time, and changes on the instance during the copy process could cause a corrupted Data.fs to be backuped, then theoretically this could happen for a local copy as well, right?
Think twice about your last sentence. What should cause a local *copy* to be changed?? -aj