[Zope] Backup Zope once a day

[Steve Spicklemire]

Well... I've never done it, but I'm guessing it will generate IO Errors 
when changes are attempted.

-steve

On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 08:02 AM, Gitte Wange wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>> 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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