RE: Backing up a live repos

Yes, I looked at that originally.

I work on a Windoze 2000 box, using pre-built binaries. At the moment I have
no desire to download the source and build from that.

After stepping into the obvious mess of changing the make variables in the
code from @SVN_BINDIR@ to an actual path (NOT something I expected to find
in an advertise support tool!), it then fell over anyway on a string
operation where it appears to be looking for the "youngest" revision in the
repository.

After looking quickly at what it was trying to do, I decided it was all more
complicated than I needed and I wasn't prepared to go "looking for the end
of the rainbow" - where the "pot of gold" is a working (how beit patched)
utility (who knows how many other gotcha's were waiting for the unwary?), so
I decided at this stage it would probably be better to roll my own.

I had similar framework code in place already, so it probably took less time
to get my own working than work out why the official tool wasn't :-)

Peter

P.S. Anybody who would like a copy of my code can apply directly to me - but
I suggest you try the official hot-backup.py first! :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Mathis [mailto:bmathis@directedge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:27 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Backing up a live repos

There's an "official" script that does this. It's in the source tree
under "tools/backup". Or if you don't have the source, take a look here:
    http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.0.2/tools/backup/

You'll need to update the paths under Global Settings

Peter Milliken wrote:

>I wrote a small Python script to handle this problem.
>
>It "resolves" the issue of accidently hotcopy'ing to an existing
>repository/directory by creating a unique name (temporary directory)for the
>repository. It then tar's and gzip's the results (all using Python 2.3
>library calls :-)) such that I end up with a file of the form
>"reproback-DD-MMM-YYYY-HH-MM-SS.tar.gz" in the root of my C drive. It
cleans
>up after itself so there are no temporary directories/files left lying
>around.
>
>Next step will be to set it up as a cron job on my cygwin installation so
>that it runs at appropriately regular intervals (haven't used cron since my
>Unix days - which was a long time ago so a small amount of research is
>required here :-)).
>
>I am working with a couple of guys who don't have Python installed, so I
>even created a executable of it so they can install and run it if need be -
>see py2exe for instructions on doing this.
>
>Peter
>

-- 
Brian Mathis
http://directedge.com/b/
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