Re: svnbackup.py

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Martin Furter wrote:
> So i had to write a better backup script: svnbackup.py.

This looks very useful. I have a few suggestions:

 * Make the compression program (and filename extension) configurable.
   (I find that bzip2 compresses dumps better than gzip does.)

 * Make the use of the svnadmin dump "--deltas" option configurable.

> Another problem is that the script creates temporary dump files when
> using the gzip option. It would be better to pipe the output of
> svnadmin dump directly into gzip, if would consume less disk space and
> even run faster on my solaris box.

Yes, that would be better.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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Received on Thu Feb 9 09:29:44 2006