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

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> 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.

I get wedges occassionally when dumping an "on-line"
repository. I would say this happens less than 1% of
dumps, but when it happens, that particular repository
becomes unresponsive.

Win32, 0.34.1 of svn.

It's possible that I'm running apache and the dump process
as two different users; if that's the issue, I can arrange
to fix it, but for now, I've also being stopping apache
when a backup job fails and wedges the repo.

---Jim

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Received on Mon Jan 5 18:13:37 2004