I know it’s not that hard to set up backup according to the documentation here: https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore/wiki/Database-Backup, but have it been considered to add it as part of eventstore? Is there a reason why it is not part of the solution, leaving it up to everyone to do their own backup thing?
I think some operations departments, especially in some windows shops, might feel that it’s not as “safe” to use eventstore as using SQL Server since SQL Server has a built-in backup solution.
If the operations are that conservative they’ll likely be paying for support
Although we may provide a script as part of of the open source packages in future, we have discussed writing a Windows Server Backup-type plugin as one of the commercial additions. If there’s significant interest in that we can look at it in future.
Easier to ship around. I personally would like to be able to (safely) grab a copy of a production database and take a look at it / manipulate it on my dev machine.
On Win2012, backups seem to fail if the service is running. What’s the approved method of backing up a running instance? Is there a way to take a hot backup?
If no, do we have to…
Set up a second node? Can we set up a second node offsite? Will writes to the onsite node block waiting for the offsite to acknowledge the writes? If we stop the offsite node to take a cold storage backup, will it sync back up when we restart it?
