You can copy the .couch file at any time and this will yield a usable snapshot of the database.
B. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, afters <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 November 2010 14:39, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 13:35, afters <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Could you elaborate a bit? this sounds like a full backup to me? >> >> (please post your reply below the text you're replying to, to >> facilitate linear reading) >> >> No, replication only propagates document revisions that are new in the >> source database. You can see in Futon how a database maintains an >> "Update Seq", which is an identifier for the full contents of the >> database at the time. By only transmitting only the updates after a >> seq the target database already has, replication is fairly efficient. >> > > I should have been clearer. I'd like to know if in this method you can > recover not only the from the latest state of the db, but also from previous > states. If I simply backup a file with rsync once every day, I can recover > the state of the db from each of day. > > > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >> >
