Hi, Little up for my backup&restore question "how to backup a specific database at T time to be able to rollback ONLY this database at T + N (without modifying others databases)?"
Thanks :) 2017-10-23 21:55 GMT+02:00 max <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading from CouchDB 1.6 and wondering how to backup my databases. > In 1.6 I was just saving each *.couch file and when something was wrong > about a specific database I just had to rollback to an older version. I was > looking at my new 2.1 CouchDB set up as a single node and then realized > each database was split in shard in /shards. OK then I though about saving > each piece of each database from these several shards folder but realized > the _dbs.couch was probably needed. > > Thus my question is simple, how to backup a specific database at T time to > be able to rollback ONLY this database at T + N (without modifying others > databases). > > Some tools seems to do the job such as https://developer.ibm.com/ > clouddataservices/2016/03/22/simple-couchdb-and-cloudant-backup/ > > Last question : In simple words what is the CouchDB 2.x cluster? It does > not seem to allow fail-over neither load-balancing does it? What is the > purpose to split a single database into 3 servers whereas the client part > will only speak with one server through 1 IP? Maybe CPU saving and > scalability? > > Thanks for any hints :) > > Max >
