On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the flip-side, if you are restoring from backup, or otherwise want > to clone an entire couchdb database, the fastest method is through > duplicating the my-database.couch file.
Just to be clear... is it okay to make a "hot backup" of that file while the server is still running? (I would think so, give it's append-only storage design.) Other databases (Oracle, Postgres) make a big distinction between hot backup (while the server is running) and cold backups (when it's not). Usually, the safest backup method with them is a cold backup -- but is impractical, given the downtime. So, usually, those other dbs ship tools to "dump" the database to another file as their hot backup solution. If "hot" copying of couchdb db files is safe and a "for free" feature of the design... that's really, really cool. :-) - Jason
