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Commit ad3412ec authored by Georgios Bitzes's avatar Georgios Bitzes
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Minor improvements to backup doc page

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# Backup & store
# Backup & restore
Let's assume there's QuarkDB running at ```/var/lib/quarkdb``` - how to backup
this directory?
......@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Please don't do that! Between the time you start the backup, to the time it fini
the underlying SST files will have likely changed, resulting in a backup that is corrupted.
Instead, take a checkpoint by issuing ``raft-checkpoint /path/to/backup``,
which will create a point-in-time consistent checkpoint, from which you will be
able to easily spin up another QDB instance if need be.
which will create a point-in-time consistent snapshot, containing both state machine
and journal, from which you will be able to easily spin up another QDB instance if need be.
Please make sure that ```/var/lib/quarkdb``` is on the **same** physical filesystem
as ```/path/to/backup```. This allows hard-linking the SST files, resulting in a
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