[Zope] Backing up Zope's database?

[Jim Fulton]

Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
> Zope doesn't have a "make a backup file facility".  Packing just happens
> to make a backup file.  If what is really wanted is a "make a backup
> file facility", this would be an easy project for the community to
> submit some patches.

Actually, Zope was designed so that you could just copy the database, 
without shutting down Zope, to make a backup.  Unfortunately, this
was broken before Zope 1.10.

Jim

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