Johannes, if you can make sure that no transaction are in progress, then copying files should work, too. Would that help? You could for instance for a brief period block mutating requests to your webservice, commit all transactions and copy the store files.
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Haensel <thehaen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the neo4j community edition in a PHP webapp that I am currently > developing and found it to be a really cool solution for my project. It is a > small project and I am just a single guy developing it so I am nowhere near > needing HA or sharding capabilities. Here is the problem I see with neo4j in > any form of webapp (SaaS): To be able to create an online backup you'll have > to use the enterprise edition (=2000 dollars a month) or you are forced to > shutdown the service for a short period of time (most likely multiple times > per day) which can be an absolute no-go for a webapp. > > So my question is: Is there another method of doing an online backup for a > single neo4j instance? I thought about traversing the whole graph and > creating a second graph filled with the result. I could then shutdown the > second instance and just backup the files old school style. This sounds > super ugly, but maybe it is a way to think about. I am fine with solutions > that would require some additional developing. > If the only solution is to use the enterprise edition than I would highly > suggest some alternative ways for the next neo4j releases as this would > prevent a lot of webdevelopers from using the product. It would be nice to > have a way to do online backups for a single instance only so the benefits > of the advanced and enterprise editions would still exist. > > Anyways, thanks for your time and answers > > Greetings from Austria, > > Hannes > > -- > View this message in context: > http://neo4j-community-discussions.438527.n3.nabble.com/Online-backups-for-single-instance-using-community-edition-tp3415246p3415246.html > Sent from the Neo4j Community Discussions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
