CouchDB backups and cloning the database

Question

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?

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Answer 1

CouchDB supports replication, so just replicate to another instance of CouchDB and backup from there, avoiding disturbing where you write changes to.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#how_replication

You literally send a POST request to your CouchDB instance telling it where to replicate to, and it Works(tm)

EDIT: You can just cp out the files from under the running database as long as you can accept the I/O hit.