Hi Martin, I asked this question a while back, and the resulting discussion is quite informative: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/11410
Alon On 5 April 2012 17:46, Martin Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering if anyone had any hints, tips or tricks for doing > live, incremental backups of a CouchDB install? > > I'm assuming that the data are in the .couch files, and the generated > views are in the .db_name_design folders, ergo, I should make sure that the > .couch files are totally safe, and the views can be backed up, to a degree, > but can always be regenerated from the .couch files? > > Are there any access/locking/permissions issues that anyone's come across? > > Many thanks, > > Martin
