[Zope] backup full instances

[knitti]

On 10/27/07, Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> wrote:
> zope might write to the Data.fs while it is copied, thus an inconsistent
> copy would be backuped, even inside one filesystem.

if you insist on copying a file, _and_ happen to be on linux with some
lvm volumes, you can snapshot that volume with Data.fs on it (throw
perhaps a sync before, don't know if it makes a difference). So you get
the copy at one point in time. you can also rsync from that.

--knitti