Every release, NuoDB gets easier to use, and release 2.3 has added a preview feature that promises to make the life of a systems administrator much easier: hot copy. (The use of preview features is encouraged in development projects but not yet supported in deployments.)
Hot copy uses one of the existing Storage Managers (SM) or Snapshot Storage Managers (SSM) to create a transactionally consistent copy of the archive and journal of a database with no interruption of service. The database continues running and transactions keep processing, even in a single host database.
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