Re: Backing up a live repos

Jeremy Bettis wrote:

>>fine to copy data to a network drive. But step 3 is dangerous: you
>>should *never* programatically access a BDB database over a network
>>share.
>
>
> Never? Isn't it safe if you can guarentee that you are the only user
> (process) that is accessing those datafiles? Or is the network issue about
> more than locking?

See for yourself:

        http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html

The short answer is that while it is theoretically possible to store the DB
files on remote filesystems, in practice it is unlikely to be safe.

John

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