We should add that this is true for 0.10 or later. :) 0.9 and earlier still support copy-while-couch-is-running.
Cheers Jan -- On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:26, Paul Davis wrote: > 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 >>
