Re: Rescuing a repository

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:05:33PM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> andy.glew@amd.com writes:
> > Staying more of the obvious:
> >
> > If when subversion can be backed up by ordinary filesystem
> > backup tools, it will be a good thing.
>
> I believe that is one of the goals of libsvn_fs_fs, the new
> non-database storage back end.

I don't see how you can reliable grab a consistent snapshot of a set of
changing files with normal filesystem tools; you'd either need to access
the files through some special interface, or temporarily disable access
to the repository.

Am I missing something obvious?

-- 
Tristan Seligmann
Developer / Network Administrator
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