On 26/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
>> Is it safe in general to copy Data.fs while the instance is running? Or
>> might I end up with a broken Data.fs, which zope is not able to read at
>> all?
>
> If you create a local copy, it is safe. If you rsync a running Data.fs, it
> is not safe. In this case
--On 27. Oktober 2007 16:29:18 +0200 Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 26/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
Is it safe in general to copy Data.fs while the instance is running? Or
might I end up with a broken Data.fs, which zope is not able to read at
all?
If you create a local copy, i
On 27/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
>>> If you create a local copy, it is safe. If you rsync a running Data.fs,
>>> it is not safe. In this case you create a local copy and rsync the copy.
>>
>> but if rsync is unsafe only because it takes long time, and changes on the
>> instance during the copy pr
On 10/27/07, Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> zope might write to the Data.fs while it is copied, thus an inconsistent
> copy would be backuped, even inside one filesystem.
if you insist on copying a file, _and_ happen to be on linux with some
lvm volumes, you can snapshot that volume wit
--On 27. Oktober 2007 18:18:23 +0200 Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 27/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
If you create a local copy, it is safe. If you rsync a running Data.fs,
it is not safe. In this case you create a local copy and rsync the
copy.
but if rsync is unsafe only beca
Hi,
Jonas Meurer schrieb:
On 27/10/2007 Andreas Jung wrote:
If you create a local copy, it is safe. If you rsync a running Data.fs,
it is not safe. In this case you create a local copy and rsync the copy.
but if rsync is unsafe only because it takes long time, and changes on the
instance duri
Jonas Meurer wrote at 2007-10-26 16:57 +0200:
> ...
>The main problem with this backup approach is, that the zope instance is
>not stopped for the backup at all, thus the Data.fs might not be up to
>date.
Why do you think that this is a problem?
Of course, your backup process may read a partial t
