On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:20:46PM -0500, Matt Campbell wrote:
> Is it possible to back up the database while the storage server is
> running and clients are using it?  If so, what is the safest way
> to do that?  Or does the server need to be taken down first?

It is safe to just copy the file.  Data is only appended and the
FileStorage class can detect if the last transaction in the file is
truncated.  Note that this is not the case for ZODB's filestorage
(you need to use the repozo.py tool).

  Neil