On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Benji York <be...@zope.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Godefroid Chapelle <got...@bubblenet.be> > wrote: >> As far as I can understand, THE reason for repozo is to backup without >> stopping the ZODB. > > [I'm a little late to this conversation.] > > Filestorages can be backed up without stopping anything. > > Any incomplete writes that are in progress at the time of the copy will > simply be ignored when the resulting backup is opened later.
Note that this assumes that you are using a straightforward linear copy. rsync would likely produce unpredictable results. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
