David,
we use a simple file copy procedure to backup our couch db from our
production servers.
Restoring by simply copying the .couch file to another server or the
origin machine works without any troubles ... unless if we take the
.couch file to a Windows machine (our production environment is Ubuntu
Linux). The windows boxes cannot finde some of the documents in such
restored backups.
I got the hint on this list to always stop couch in the Windows services
panel before copying the file onto the machine. Since this wasn't too
long ago, I cannot tell you if it really solves that problem reliably or
not. It seems couch prefers replication as a reliable backup strategy,
but that doesn't fit for all situations. If you simply want to store a
file on some backup medium, this can be complicated (firewalls,
executables on backup target environment etc.).
So I am eager to read all the answers to your question as well, because
we need a reliable way to store plain files (not a second couch machine)
- especially for long term archives (10+ years).
Joachim
Am 10.10.16 um 16:57 schrieb David Gubler:
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
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