I've never been emailed by Gmail before... Its true because CouchDB is an append only file format. If you have a *.couch file you can test such things my progressively trimming from the tail end of the file and loading it between truncations. As long as there's no corruption randomly throughout the file everything should be valid.
HTH, Paul Davis On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > You say that with such confidence :). This is true even if Couch is writing > to the db file at the same time TM is backing it up? Does TM use some kind > I'd shadow copy? > > ------------------ > David Van Couvering > http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:41 AM, David Van Couvering >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone know if a TimeMachine backup of a running CouchDB will work, or is >>> there a likelihood of corruption? >>> >>> -- >>> David W. Van Couvering >>> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvc >>> http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com >>> http://twitter.com/dcouvering >>> >> >> Yes it should work without any problem. >> >> - benoit >
