Re: [Exist-open] Best practice - How to backup an eXist instance with ~800k records?

[Michael H. <Mic...@ad...>]

Am 12.08.2013 11:57, schrieb Willem van der Westhuizen:
> Jörg
>
> We have databases with similar numbers of documents, and the backup 
> takes less than an hour. We use the backup.sh script to do so. That 
> does not seem to place a write lock on the database, and people are 
> still able to use the database, other than that it is slower. Is does 
> not do a consistency check though.
>
> Willem
Dear Willem,

if I read the documentation correctly, with the use of the backup.sh 
script there is the possibility to get corrupted data, because data can 
change through backup. So this script is no option for us. But we could 
drop the backuptime to about one hour. See my other post for this.

regards

Michael Haft