[Zope] Backing up Zope's database?

[ron@rotflol.cx]

> Paul Everitt wrote:
> > 
> > Martijn wrote:
> > Instead, use cron.  Write a little ZRPC (or just httplib) script that
> > connects to the Control Panel and executes a pack.
> 
> I should look into ZRPC. And on how to do cron on NT (sigh :). Perhaps
> arcserve can start a little script before it starts to do the backup. I
> don't know much about arcserve (I didn't install it), and I should delve
> further tomorrow in exactly *what* is failing.
>  
Arcserve has options to run scripts prior to and after each backup/restore/copy session ;-)

BTW, arcserve HATES doing backups of open files even when files are opened O_RDONLY.

The arcserve job queue actually can be used as a nice scheduling system for servers when you leave the real job empty and only use before/after backup scripts.

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