[Zope] Backup Zope once a day

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Gitte,

	I'm not sure you really need to! Are you concerned about backing up 
Data.fs in the middle of a write? Because of the way FileStorage works 
objects are added to the end, the worst case is that you'd lose the last 
transaction. However, to be squeaky clean, you could:

stop Zope
restart Zope in "readonly" mode (./start -r)
backup
stop Zope
restart Zope in "read/write" mode.

-steve

On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 04:30 AM, Gitte Wange wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have created a little cron script that creates a daily tarball from my
> entire Zope dir.
> But in order to do this I must stop Zope - create the tarball and then 
> start
> Zope again.
>
> I now that Zope will only be down for about 2 minutes or so but 
> customers
> don't like that :-)
>
> So I was wondering if there was a way to do a daily backup without 
> stopping
> Zope ?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Gitte Wange Jensen
>
> Sys Admin, Developer and a lot more
> MMmanager.org Aps, Denmark
>
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> Ethan Fremen: "Oh, believe me, we've got LOTS of birds lined up to 
> die..."
>
> 	- Ethan Fremen, f2f conversation with chrism, 2001/04/13
>
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