Backups?

Hi Chris and all!

Ok, we are getting closer to first test deployment of our app for a few user groups and (since we may experience problems, like db corruption (heaven forbid) or simply bugs in the app causing havoc) I want to make extra sure that I have a good approach regarding backups.

Am I correct that since we now have fault tolerance I could essentially just copy the db files to get a backup of the db - even though it will not be transactionally correct? I mean - I can lose the ongoing txns, but the copy should otherwise be able to recover and work, right?

Or do I need to make a shutdown in order to make sure I get a "proper" backup?

regards, Göran