Hi, I wonder how you'd do backups of your data in a CouchDB cluster. The documentation does not mention backups of clusters explicitly (https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/maintenance/backups.html#database-backups).
When you have a cluster of three nodes and the nodes are set to n=3 and q=2 (see https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/cluster/sharding.html), I'd expect that every single node in the cluster has all the data and you can copy the .couch files from any of these three nodes. When you have 6 nodes with n=3 and q=2 this approach does not work anymore because every node has just a single shard. Please correct me if I am wrong. What is best practice to backup a cluster? This message is a follow-up from here: https://github.com/cloudant/couchbackup/issues/349 Thanks, Simon
