[Zope] Backup Zope once a day

[Gitte Wange]

On Friday 10 August 2001 14:51, you wrote:
> 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

Well .... last night I tried to create a tarball from the zope-dir while Zope 
was running .. and someone accessed our website (Data.fs changed I guess) and 
tar exited with an error. When I stopped Zope and created the tarball 
everything went fine ...

How while users experience the website if Zope is running i read-only mode ?
While it still be working ?

Gitte


> 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
> >
> > Phone: +45 29 72 79 72
> > Email: gitte@mmmanager.org
> > Web: www.mmmanager.org
> >
> > Quote of the day:
> > Chris McDonough: "We should kill two birds with one stone with this..."
> > 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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