afters wrote: > 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)?
Yes, you can just rsync or copy the files while CouchDB is running. Thanks to CouchDB's append-only file structure this is safe. Nils. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VPRO phone: +31(0)356712911 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.vpro.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------
