Alternative ways to create a full backup

[Flo9520]

Hello,

so I recently faced the issue that due to one of our developers making a mistake the storage ended up being corrupted - also the continous backup was damaged and did not start. Our solution was to roll back to the full backup which we create every hour - this worked fine.

Now I have seen that whenever we create the full backup the storage is halting for a couple seconds until the backup is done. In these couple seconds all threads wanting to write data have to wait aswell which could be a problem.

Is there any other way to make a full backup in the same manor so that my threads wanting to write to the storage do not get blocked? I do not want to rely on the storage/continous backup alone because of the experience we had with this incident.

[skearns23]

one idea is to use their cluster concept to keep a read only copy up to date, and then to backup this read only copy. Note that I have never actually done this so I cannot say for sure if this would work.