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

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

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?
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> 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 ?
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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.