>  Anyway, I didn't know that you could just copy the db files that easily.


Yes.  In development I take snapshots by just copying the db file while it
is live.  Then I restore snapshots just by copying the old file over the
newer one.  Then I do a db restart and like magic it is restored.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Matthieu Rakotojaona <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Good backup gives you the ability to go back to an older version of data.
> >  Replication does not allow this.
>
> Wouldn't a _changes feed provide you with the same kind of information
> ? Because rsync'ing the db file, only retrieving the diff from the
> last time we checked it, looks a lot like getting
>     _changes?since=N
> with the drawbacks that you would have to store the
> last_fetched_seqnum somewhere and that you couldn't compress it
> directly.
>
> Anyway, I didn't know that you could just copy the db files that
> easily. Yet Another great feature !
>
> --
> Matthieu RAKOTOJAONA
>

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