[erlang-questions] [ANN] leveldb_manager: a helper to eleveldb for in-flight backups

[Mikael Pettersson]

Benoit Chesneau writes:
 > I'm trying to understand how to use the lib. Can 1 process open the
 > database, while many others can read/write to it?

Some process must open or create the specific leveldb table first, which
creates a supervised manager process for the table.  Then any number of
processes may read/write it via the registered name of that manager.

The API is essentially the same as for plain eleveldb.

 > 
 > - benoît
 > 
 > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:33 PM Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED>
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > In order to be able to snapshot and back up a leveldb instance without
 > > stopping the Erlang node (or shutting down eleveldb), we have written a
 > > manager application that lets you temporarily stop leveldb traffic and
 > > perform the snapshot (a very quick operation):
 > >
 > > https://github.com/klarna/leveldb_manager
 > >
 > > We would prefer if this made it into the eleveldb distribution itself, in
 > > some shape, but for now the cleanest solution was to make it a separate
 > > application with its own supervision.
 > >
 > >         /Richard
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