actually, if you have a large ZODB (more than 100MB i would say) i would always make a copy of it before using rsync. i had nothing but trouble using straight rsync on a large multi-GB Data.fs. what arrived on the other side ended up being useless. jens On Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, at 05:27 US/Eastern, Maik Jablonski wrote:

Pedro Beck Gomes da Costa wrote:

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But can we copy the Data.fs file without shutdown Zope? If not, how can we mantain a 24x7 site and do the necessary backups ?

rsync will be your friend...

-mj