Re: Feature request: a real backup/restore system for svn.

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:57, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Well, that's a good argument for having a backup script based on dump
> > files. (I don't think it has to be a huge project, contrary to what
> > Branko said.) But such a thing doesn't qualify as a "hot" backup, so we
> > shouldn't consider it as a replacement for svnadmin hotcopy.
>
> How is it not hot?

Er, sorry. I read Branko use the phrase '"hot" (zero-downtime)' and was
thinking about the time it takes to get the backup operational again.
At work, people use the phrase "hot spare" to refer to a spare server
which is kept running and monitored.

So, sure, a dumpfile backup is a hot backup, but it's sufficiently slow
to restore with that it isn't really a replacement for a backup of the
back end.

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Received on Tue Jun 22 02:26:38 2004