Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> We think that Subversion should provide admins with a single, robust
> backup/restore solution which "just works" (won't throw random retry
> errors), and is independent of repository back-end. We're probably
> talking about a smart script which
>
> * utilizes 'svnadmin dump/load' as the main mechanism for backup
> and restore,
>
> * knows when to use --incremental or not,
>
> * uses the 1.1 --deltas switch for dumping,
>
> * remembers what it's done before, and manages a collection of full
> and incremental dumpfiles,
>
> * can intelligently restore from the collection of dumpfiles.
As a systems administrator, may I suggest one other attribute to this
proposed tool? That its abilility to manage a collection be designed to
manage more than one collection of dumpfiles? This would suggest that
the meta-data for tracking "what it has done" be stored along with the
dump files themselves such that if you have two locations for dump files
each is managed independently.
Cheers...
Bruce
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Received on Thu Jun 17 19:39:56 2004