On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Rob Willett <rob.sqlite at robertwillett.com> wrote: > We?re trying to backup a 10GB live running database [...]
> 2. If we use the command line sqlite <filename> .dump > <backupfilename> it > works, but its very slow. That's going to SQL text. While .backup is page-based, and binary. But not incremental in the Shell I believe. > 3. Using the Sqlite C API works but is also very slow. Are you talking about https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html ? Because Example 2 is exactly your use case. > So is there any other method of doing a quick snapshot? Well, https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html is the only supported way IMHO. --DD
