[Zope] Corruption protection

[marc lindahl]

> From: "Montagne, Michael" <montagne@BOORA.com>
>
> When a table becomes corrupt in Access it is usually easily fixed or
> replaced from backup as a last resort.

I wish I knew that trick!  At my last company we were constantly losing data
from Access crashes.

>  I think PostgreSQL uses seperate
> files for it's tables so the can be replace if needed.

I thought it was one monolithic file...

> What happens if the
> Zope database gets corrupt?

Check out http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/CorruptedZODB

> It is a monolithic file.  Also, what about
> exporting data for use in a different database or program?  Can I read the
> zope database with ODBC?  If I ever needed to convert to another database
> what about exporting the data?

The great thing about it, is it's Python, so it's simple to write any kind
of translator you could imagine.