Re: [Lurker-users] Back up of the Lurker system

[Robert W. <ro...@a1...>]

This is embarrassing, I really SHOULD know how to do this, but I don't.

 

How do I lock this file ?

 

When you say block level, you mean something like "dump" or "tar" ?

 

 

From: Wesley W. Terpstra [mailto:we...@te...] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:25 PM
To: Robert Woodworth
Cc: lurker-users
Subject: Re: [Lurker-users] Back up of the Lurker system

 

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Robert Woodworth <ro...@a1...>
wrote:

Whats the best way to do backups of the Lurker system?

 

If I run a cron job to copy the database over to another location, how do I
ensure that my backup and an indexing process do not collide ?

 

If you lock the file /var/lib/lurker/db.writer during your backup of the
lurker database, this will stop any new messages from being indexed.

 

Another option is a filesystem or block-level snapshot. At any given instant
the lurker database is consistent, so any sort of snapshotting technology
will work.