[Zope] Re: How to backup Zope data base?

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:22:44 +0000


"Mayers, Philip J" wrote:
> 
> Well, bad _technically_, or bad _evil_?

Well, doing an XML export as opposed to a cp is probably a lot more
processor-intensive...

> It does have the sole advantage you can pull a portion of your tree, 

true...

> and
> some people have had Data.fs problems (not me thankfully). But in general
> I'd guess backing up Data.fs to be the best way. How does it copy with
> non-atomicity of disk writes?

Very well, apparently :-) It's a sequential transaction log, so, at worst,
you'll loose the last transaction...

cheers,

Chris