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RE: svn recovery help

From: Padhy, Chandrajeet <CPadhy_at_west.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:32:35 -0600

Hi,

Our current backup process is doing a SVN HOTCOPY every night to a
backup location on a different box. Upto
Can I somehow recover from that backup and retain all revision history?
Or do I need to use the svn dump/load?

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Eichin [mailto:eichin_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:59 PM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: svn recovery help

Have look looked at the svnbook? It has some detail on the recovery
process. There's a trivial way to simulate a repository crash,
though: pretend the machine is completely gone. Now, where are your
backups? Bring them somewhere you can work, and see if you can get to
the point of checking out from them. (After all, that's your use-case
for even having backups, right?)

Specifics depend on how you did the backups in the first place. One
useful "cheat" is that you might be able to ignore the access control
part of the equation and just use file://// to access your restored
copy - but if your goal is to show that you could recover full access,
you need to configure everything...

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Padhy, Chandrajeet <CPadhy_at_west.com>
wrote:
> Can anyone reply to this?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> From: Padhy, Chandrajeet [mailto:CPadhy_at_west.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:25 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: FW: svn recovery help
>
>
>
> Can someone please reply to this thread?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I would like to get some help on how to do a recovery? We do take
nightly
> and incremental backups for our SVN repository in one of our Windows
> machine.
>
> I have been given a task to test the failure and recovery for the svn
> repository. There are a bunch of scripts which are doing the backup
job.
>
>
>
> I am a newbie to svn as admin. So need some guidance on what are the
basic
> steps in a Recovery process. A outline of the requirement:
>
> 1) Svnadmin recover : simple usage
>
> 2) How to simulate a repository crash?
>
> 3) How to recover from the nightly backups? Required scripts.
>
>
>
> Peace & regards,
>
> Chandrajeet

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_Mark_ <eichin_at_thok.org> <eichin_at_gmail.com>
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