[Zope] Re: backup full instances

2007-10-28 Thread Sam Stainsby
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:15:27 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > 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. We use the repozo backup (and res

Re: [Zope] backup full instances

2007-10-28 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 27/10/2007 Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Nobody is wrong. Your #debian guys just had not all informations. > Zope is always appending to Data.fs, copy (cp) works linear, so > it would always maintain a consistent state of this file. > (It either copies before or after the last append operation) > > r

Re: [Zope] backup full instances

2007-10-28 Thread 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 transact