Re: how to check completeness? (was: Re: urgent: subversion)

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, August 06, 2004 9:12 AM +0100 Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>
wrote:
>
>> 'svnadmin dump' reads out a complete representation of the repository -
>> so, yes, if a dump runs successfully, you can be certain your repository
>> is 100% working
>
> I saw mention in The Book about using a hook script to create a hot
backup,
> but it strikes me as more "safe" to dump the repository instead, perhaps
> gzipping it. Has anyone written a hook script like that?

It's not exactly hard. Just use something like:

svnadmin dump --incremental -r $REV $REPOS | gzip -9 >
$BACKUPPATH/rev-$REV.dump.gz

Max.

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Received on Fri Aug 6 12:45:26 2004