CouchDB backups and cloning the database

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Kyle Burton picture Kyle Burton · Sep 23, 2008 · Viewed 36.2k times · Source

We're looking at CouchdDB for a CMS-ish application. What are some common patterns, best practices and workflow advice surrounding backing up our production database?

I'm particularly interested in the process of cloning the database for use in development and testing.

Is it sufficient to just copy the files on disk out from under a live running instance? Can you clone database data between two live running instances?

Advice and description of the techniques you use will be greatly appreciated.

Answer

Paul J. Davis picture Paul J. Davis · Sep 23, 2008

Another thing to be aware of is that you can copy files out from under a live database. Given that you may have a possibly large database, you could just copy it OOB from your test/production machine to another machine.

Depending on the write load of the machines it may be advisable to trigger a replication after the copy to gather any writes that were in progress when the file was copied. But replication of a few records would still be quicker than replication the entire database.

For reference see: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/FilesystemBackups

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