Backup Procedures, Policies & Execution

There are three different types of backups that you can perform with BDB XML containers and log files. They are:

Offline backupsThis type of backup is perhaps the easiest to perform as it involves simply copying database and log files to an offline storage area. It also gives you a snapshot of the database at a fixed, known point in time. However, you cannot perform this type of a backup while you are performing writes to the database.
Hot backupsThis type of backup gives you a snapshot of your database. Since your application can be writing to the database at the time that the snapshot is being taken, you do not necessarily know what the exact state of the database is for that given snapshot.
Incremental backupsThis type of backup refreshes a previously performed backup.

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