[Zope] backup full instances

[Jonas Meurer]

On 27/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
> This is not the point. rsync will run into if the file to be synced changes
> in-between the sync operation. This will happen with the Data.fs - it won't
> happen with a static copy. An inconsistent copy of the Data.fs is not the 
> problem since invalid transaction entries will be discarded by the ZODB.
> So rsyncing a copy of the Data.fs it the way to go.

Ah, now i got it. Thanks for your patience ;-)

it's interesting that the current backups (rsync the Data.fs directly)
never caused any problems. i guess that's due to the fact that the
Data.fs infact never changed during the backups yet.

i'll change that to backup a local copy of the Data.fs instead in
future. a simple solution would be to run 'cp Data.fs Data.fs.safe'
for every instance just before backuppc starts the rsync process.

thanks for your help,
 jonas
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