[ZODB-Dev] Repozo tests -- not

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha at bubblenet.be> wrote:
>> As far as I can understand, THE reason for repozo is to backup without
>> stopping the ZODB.
>
> [I'm a little late to this conversation.]
>
> Filestorages can be backed up without stopping anything.
>
> Any incomplete writes that are in progress at the time of the copy will
> simply be ignored when the resulting backup is opened later.

Note that this assumes that you are using a straightforward linear copy.
rsync would likely produce unpredictable results.

Jim

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Jim Fulton