thanks! i'll definitely look into that. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Glenn Rempe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure if this will help at all, but I am also using EBS to store a large > cdb DB. > It is recommended that the filesystem that you want to snapshot on EBS is > frozen (or unmounted) if that is possible to help ensure a coherent EBS > snapshot. > > For example, on my mysql and couchdb volumes I use the XFS filesystem which > has an XFS freeze command which I use to temporarily lock the FS and flush > it to disk, and then request the snapshot. You can do this in a script and > it takes only a few seconds of disk downtime. I believe writes are cached > during this period. I have been using this with mysql but have not yet set > it up for my couchdb volume. > > See : > > > http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?categoryID=100&externalID=1663 > http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot > > HTH > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Alex P <[email protected]> wrote: > > > a simple copy seems to work just fine. db shows up with the right seq > > number > > > etc. > > > > cool. totally wanna learn about the SAN roundtrip. :) > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Paul Davis < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alex P <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > cdb catalogs databases purely on file name and presence in the > > >> appropriate > > >> > directory, right? so if i copy db1 to db1_copy, i should see > db1_copy > > >> show > > >> > up in futon? > > >> > > >> Yepper. Make sure the permissions are correct after copying though. > > >> > > >> Paul Davis > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Chris Anderson > > http://jchrisa.net > > http://couch.io > > > > > > -- > Glenn Rempe > > email : [email protected] > voice : (415) 894-5366 or (415)-89G-LENN > twitter : @grempe > contact info : http://www.rempe.us/contact.html > pgp : http://www.rempe.us/gnupg.txt >
