Re: [Zope] Re: How to backup Zope data base?

"Mayers, Philip J" wrote:

Well, bad _technically_, or bad _evil_?

Well, doing an XML export as opposed to a cp is probably a lot more processor-intensive...

It does have the sole advantage you can pull a portion of your tree,

true...

and some people have had Data.fs problems (not me thankfully). But in general I'd guess backing up Data.fs to be the best way. How does it copy with non-atomicity of disk writes?

Very well, apparently :-) It's a sequential transaction log, so, at worst, you'll loose the last transaction... cheers, Chris