We saw the loss of a view/index when we did a filesystem backup. Are the indexes stored in a different place on the filesystem then the data?
On 3/19/15, 12:32 PM, "Jan Lehnardt" <j...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 19 Mar 2015, at 19:51, Michael Power <michael.po...@elotouch.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a way we can ask couchdb to flush to disk and block all writes. We >> would like to get the disk in a consistent state and do a disk based backup. >> Is this possible? The actual backup takes milliseconds we just need the >> disk in a consistent state for those milliseconds. > >That’s CouchDB’s default mode of operation. > >If you need to make sure you have the absolute latest data, set >`delayed_writes` to `false` in the configuration, but for backup reasons, it >shouldn’t make a difference. > >Best >Jan >-- > >> >> Michael Power > >-- >Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: >http://www.neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ >
