How to backup a metakit database?

[email protected] (Allan Wind)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.metakit
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How do you backup a metakit database?

The cold case is obvious as usual, ensure that no one else has the
database file open prior to making a copy of the data with a file level
tools (cp, tar etc).

What are the options for hot (i.e. open with an active writer) backups?
I noticed the information in the python api reference for doing this
from the writer thread/process, but are there any options for doing it
externally?  If the file is open commit-extend, can you use the same
trick if you open the datbase read-only in a 2nd process?  If using
commit-aside, is it then safe to just low-level copy the "main"
database?

Is journaling planned?  I.e. point in time recoverability between
backups.


/Allan

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