text: Hi,
  On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Samuel Cox <crankydillo@gmail.com> wrote:
  > Does this include things like indexing going on? I can cache changes
  > to calls like Node.setProperty(...), but I'm not sure how to block all
  > the other stuff without a complete shutdown. Is a complete shutdown
  > required?
  No, you're fine as long as you can guarantee that no session does a
  save() or commits a transaction (or does some of the other directly
  persisted changes like move(), checkin() or namespace and node type
  registration) while the backup is taking place.
  BR,
  Jukka Zitting