Hi list, I'm currently implementing CouchDB backup for one of our customers. The backup should be generic, i.e. not tied to the needs of that specific customer.
However, I can't find any consensus on how to properly implement backup for CouchDB. System: Ubuntu 16.04 with CouchDB 1.6.0, backup software is Burp. According to http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-couchdb-user/200808.mbox/%3c32800028-9286-47c8-82a5-1ecc25667...@apache.org%3E, I can just copy the file from the running server. That should work with burp. However, other sources say that the backup will be much smaller if I dump each database. There's a bunch of tools to do this, ubuntu has the python-couchdb package (0.10-1.1) with the couchdb-dump and couchdb-load tools. As far as I understand it, the dump will not include some (meta)information about the documents, like old versions. Thus my main questions are: - Can the python-couchdb tools (couchdb-dump, couchdb-load) be relied upon as backup tools? - Are these tool fast enough for larger (several GB) data sets? - Are there realistic use cases in which these dumps are insufficient because they miss some (meta)data which was present in the original database? - Any experiences with backup software simply copying the database files? Thanks! Best regards, David -- David Gubler System Engineer VSHN AG | Neugasse 10 | CH-8005 Zürich T: +41 44 545 53 00 | M: +41 76 461 23 11 | http://vshn.ch
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