Re: large number of large binary files in subversion

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +1100, Winston Smith wrote:
>
> > > repo(s) is/are on a permanently mounted USB disk.
> >
> > The USB stick might give you less i/o throughput than an internal hard
> > disk, and it might fail early due to flash wearing out.
>
> I believe I mentioned a disk, not a stick. But thanks anyway...

Ah, sorry I misread what you wrote.

All these zillions of storage methods can be confusing.
Just recently someone (not me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had been me)
was saying that the Apache Software Foundation's Subversion repository was
hosted on an SD card for performance reasons but really meant SSD :)
 
> > using
> > 'svnadmin hotcopy' to copy your repositories to it once a week or so
>
> Yes, I planned to do that for a read-only backup repository as part of
> various backup schedules (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly).

Unfortunately there is no incremental hotcopy support yet,
see http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3815

If you ensure that no commits happen during the backup period you
could use rsync instead.
Received on 2011-05-25 11:45:56 CEST