just copy the file, there's no need to stop couchdb. Replication would be another way, of course.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, afters <[email protected]> wrote: > hi folks, > > As I'm about to implement it myself, I'm curious to know how people handle > incremental backups for their DB's. > > The straight-forward way, as I see it, is to shutdown couch and use a tool > like rsync or duplicity to backup db files. It should do the job well, and > as an added bonus, it could also be used to backup views. > > Does anyone know if a similar backup could be done while the couch is still > on (and the db is being updated)? > > Does anyone do incremental backups using replication? > > a. >
