Re: [Zope] How to backup Zope data base?

2001-01-18 Thread Marty Stitt
What is the best way to backup Zope's database whithout stopping Zope? When Pack + backup Data.fs.old. Interesting approach! While this topic of backup has come up, I'm wondering about restore. Looking at Data.* files in the var directory, I see: Data.fs Data.fs.index

Re: [Zope] How to backup Zope data base?

2001-01-18 Thread Marty Stitt
This is the real database file. Data.fs.index Its index. Remove before replacing Data.fs. Data.fs.old This is backup after Pack. Data.fs.in This is initial Data.fs - installation process copy this into Data.fs before starting Zope for the first time.

Re: [Zope] How to backup Zope data base?

2001-01-18 Thread Marty Stitt
I've just noticed another thing on this 'how to backup Data.fs' issue. Preparing to backup my work, I did a pack, and was then going to archive the resulting Data.fs.old. Because I'd added and deleted a bunch of files earlier today, the Data.fs.old file was 22M in size, and the freshly packed