RE: how to backup svn repos - hotcopy or dump?

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:59, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> I've been using dump, because the disk space required is much smaller. Then
> I gzip it also. This has the downside that I have to stop apache while it's
> being dumped [...]

Why do you stop apache to dump your repository? 'svnadmin dump' is just
another process that is reading data, no different than apache doing a
checkout. Repository readers don't block any other readers or writers,
and almost never blocked themselves. As long as you run the dump as the
apache-user, you shouldn't have any permissions or umask problems.

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Received on Mon Jan 5 17:31:04 2004