From 255764716c222dae3f41d34fa15e99fc0a8f4eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: varac Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:48:15 +0100 Subject: add couchdb backup docs --- pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md') diff --git a/pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md b/pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md index 842a822..faefe11 100644 --- a/pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md +++ b/pages/docs/platform/services/couchdb.md @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ Beware that this returns the uncompacted disk size (see http://wiki.apache.org/c ## 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. + -- cgit v1.2.3