Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-18 Thread Guru GV
Thanks Tobias, I will try that out, the suggested approach would also makes sense to reduce the load during taking a backup - will play around and post if anything. On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tobias Ivarsson < tobias.ivars...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > Hi Guru, > > Actually Emil is not com

Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-16 Thread Tobias Ivarsson
Hi Guru, Actually Emil is not completely up to speed with the current state of the online backup feature. Our previous online backup feature worked this way, since all it did was copy the transaction logs and replay those on the backup target. This had the drawback of requiring an equal database

Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-15 Thread Guru GV
Wow ! Amazingly quick response, Thanks Emil! On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Emil Eifrem wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 23:47, Guru GV wrote: > > What happens if I initiate the Backup and then couple of more > transactions > > are performed on the DB and only after that the Backup finishes.

Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-15 Thread Emil Eifrem
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 23:47, Guru GV wrote: > What happens if I initiate the Backup and then couple of more transactions > are performed on the DB and only after that the Backup finishes. > In that case - is it guaranteed that the those Txs (that started after the > backup was initiated)* are no

Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-15 Thread Guru GV
Yes, I was just looking at that - however one question that poped-up - What happens if I initiate the Backup and then couple of more transactions are performed on the DB and only after that the Backup finishes. In that case - is it guaranteed that the those Txs (that started after the backup was i

Re: [Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-15 Thread Emil Eifrem
Guru -- I think the online backup functionality may be what you're looking for: http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/operations-backup.html It's a feature that's not available in Neo4j Community, but in Neo4j Enterprise (which you can get under the AGPL or a commercial license, see http://neo

[Neo4j] Taking a Snapshot.

2011-04-15 Thread Guru GV
I have a use case : - An embedded Neo4j DB is constantly being written and updated into. At any point of time I would like to take a snapshot of the same and use it for analysis of the state at that particular time.If the data changes in between - then the snapshot not be inconsistent with the cor