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Re: hot-backup.py vs svnadmin hotcopy

From: Andreas Mahel <andreas.mahel_at_gmx.net>
Date: 2006-11-17 11:16:33 CET

Kalle Klovn wrote:
> Are you sure the hot-backup.py works for FSFS? The first lines of the
> hot-backup.py file reads:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> # hot-backup.py: perform a "hot" backup of a Berkeley DB repository.
> # (and clean old logfiles after backup completes.)
>
> Anyone??
>
It definitely works also for FSFS
>
> On 11/17/06, eg <egoots@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Kalle Klovn wrote:
>> > What is the advantages of using the hot-backup.py over using the
>> > svnadmin hotcopy directly? Does the hot-backup.py work for fsfs, or
>> does
>> > it work for Berkeley only?
>>
>> hot-backup.py actually calls svnadmin hotcopy so the results should be
>> equivalent.
>>
>> Both work for fsfs and bdb.
>>
>> The main advantages of hot-backup.py are that it create a backup of the
>> repository into a subdirectory of given directory, named after the
>> youngest revision. It automatically handles naming, copies, and will
>> even do a specified maximum number of backups. Newer versions (trunk
>> only?) will optionally compress the backups.
>>
>>
>>
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