[Zope] Backing up Zope's database?

[Brad Clements]

On 24 Feb 99, at 11:21, Martijn Faassen wrote:

I do a manage_ExportHack from the root folder once a day. This 
produces an export.bbe file which is essentially the same thing as your 
database (only it is already compressed).


Now, if I could get that to be automated.. Perhaps in ZServer.. 
Interesting thought..


> We're running Zope on an NT server here and the backup system (Arcserve)
> apparently gives an error when it tries to backup Zope's 'var' directory.
> I would like to have this succeed (and end up with a non corrupted
> database, of course :), so here are some questions:
> 
> * is this perhaps fixed by Zope 1.10? I read something about Zope 1.9 not
> doing proper file locking on NT yet, so there is some difference here.
> 
> * Is copying a database while Zope is running a good strategy? (probably
> not)
> 
> * What other options are there? For instance, NT seems to be able to
> copy the var dir just fine, so perhaps a copy could be made that
> Arcserve could backup. Still, that database would be backuped while Zope
> is running, so perhaps this isn't a good idea.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Martijn
> 
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