I assumed rdiff-backup was the tool in question. Should work nicely until you compact, which you should be doing frequently on active databases.
There's definitely a gap for a solid backup tool that works incrementally even across compactions. B. On 29 February 2012 22:02, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
