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## Use plain couchdb instead of bigcouch
+Be aware that latest stable couchdb 1.6 cannot be clustered like bigcouch, so you can use this only if you have a single couchdb node.
+
Use this in your couchdb node config:
"couch": {
@@ -150,3 +152,16 @@ Use this in your couchdb node config:
"pwhash_alg": "pbkdf2"
}
+Local couch data dumps
+======================
+
+You can let one or more nodes do a nightly couchdb data dump adding this to your node config:
+
+ "couch": {
+ "backup": true
+ }
+
+Data will get dumped to `/var/backups/couchdb`.
+
+Be aware that this will gather all data possibly shared over multiple nodes on one node.
+