Hi Matt,
Your assumption is correct: Database backups are nothing else than zipped archives of the corresponding database subdirectory located in the 'data' directory.
If you create backups on your own, you should ensure that no updates are currently running during your update operation. If you use CREATE BACKUP or db:create-backup, BaseX will take care of that.
Hope this helps, Christian
I'm interested in creating backups manually so I can use a different
compression algorithm. Based on the source code[1], it looks like backups are just created by adding each file (excluding upd.basex) in the database directory to a .zip file, so I could do the same using tar and my compression algorithm of choice. Is my understanding correct or am I missing some other logic?
Thanks, Matt
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/main/basex-core/src/main/java/org/base...