[Zope] backup full instances

[Dieter Maurer]

Jonas Meurer wrote at 2007-10-26 16:57 +0200:
> ...
>The main problem with this backup approach is, that the zope instance is
>not stopped for the backup at all, thus the Data.fs might not be up to
>date.

Why do you think that this is a problem?

Of course, your backup process may read a partial transaction record --
it will be dropped automatically when the storage file is opened.
Of course, your backup process may not have backed up the state
at the end of the backup -- but it will have backed up the state at
the start of the backup.

Thus, all you can have as a problem: the effective backup may
not exceed the state at it was when the backup started.

I think, this should be good enough.



-- 
Dieter