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Add notification in docs re backup command

Barak Michener 11 years ago
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 #### Backing up the datastore
 
+**NB:** Windows users must stop etcd before running the backup command.
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 The first step of the recovery is to backup the data directory on a functioning etcd node. To do this, use the `etcdctl backup` command, passing in the original data directory used by etcd. For example:
 
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