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Re: large number of large binary files in subversion

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:17:07 +0200

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:02:28PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:45:21 +0200:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +1100, Winston Smith wrote:
> > > Yes, I planned to do that for a read-only backup repository as part of
> > > various backup schedules (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly).
> >
> > Unfortunately there is no incremental hotcopy support yet,
> > see http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3815
> >
> > If you ensure that no commits happen during the backup period you
> > could use rsync instead.
>
> It is not safe to rsync live Subversion filesystems. (the result may or
> may not be corrupt)

That's why I said that no commits should happen. But thanks for
spelling it out more explicitly.
Received on 2011-05-25 12:17:45 CEST

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