Hey Dan,
I have an app in production and we handle backups the way you're describing. 
Every night we push a zip archive to s3. Works great.

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Clemens

> Am 14.01.2016 um 21:44 schrieb Dan Santner <[email protected]>:
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> I should probably ask a different question.
> 
> I’ve been using git to take snapshots of my databases in certain states.  
> Basically i put all the data files under git and then when I have my data the 
> way I want I can freeze it for later replay by committing it to a branch in a 
> repo.
> 
> It works really well for me.  I’m thinking of the similar mechanism for 
> backup.  Basically I’ll zip the data directory and store it in S3 
> periodically as a backup.  I was concerned though that the state of the files 
> might not be restartable if I don’t shut down the couchdb process before 
> snapshotting.
> 
> Anyone else doing something like this?
> 
>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> [couchdb]
>> delayed_commits=false
>> 
>> It’s false by default from 2.0 onward too.
>> 
>> When set to true, a timer calls fsync once per second. I’d argue your 
>> forcing isn’t necessary in either case.
>> 
>> B.
>> 
>>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 17:46, Dan Santner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to force couch to flush everything to disk?  right now I’m 
>>> stopping the database to make that happen but would be really nice to be 
>>> able to do that while keeping it running.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Maybe this isn’t even necessary?
> 

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