On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Kimberlad wrote: So I'm none the wiser as to how I scale a Couchdb backup other than I can possibly use something like rdiff to do incrementals?
I’m not familiar with rdiff, but rsync would be a good approach, maybe combined with an SCM (e.g. rsync into a git repository and then commit the changes.) CouchDB files are pretty delta-friendly because they’re append-only, so most of the time nothing will change in the file except for new data added at the end. When a database is compacted the file is completely rewritten, though. —Jens
