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RE: RE: RE: Backing up a live repos

From: Alison Jones <Alison.Jones_at_calrec.com>
Date: 2004-05-11 10:13:25 CEST

So as my repository is on the C: drive on a windows 200 machine and we want to put the backup onto a shared drive so it is included in our backup system can I do
Svnadmin hotcopy c:/repos z:/backupRepos

So hotcopy across a network drive?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: 11 May 2004 00:23
> To: Garrick Olson
> Cc: Mark; Brian Mathis; Eric Carlson; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: RE: Backing up a live repos
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 18:17, Garrick Olson wrote:
> > Is it strictly necessary to do "svnadmin hotcopy" before "svnadmin
> > dump"? Or is this a performance optimization?
> >
> > I looked at the svn book, but it doesn't seem to indicate
> whether it
> > is safe to do "svnadmin dump" on a live repository. Maybe I just
> > missed it.
>
> 'svnadmin dump' is exactly the same as doing a checkout of
> every revision. So yes, it's perfectly safe to run on a live
> repository.
>
> 'svnadmin hotcopy' is exactly the same as:
>
> 1. cp -R repos repos-backup
> 2. cp -R repos/db/log* repos-backup/db/
> 3. svnadmin recover repos-backup
>
> ...and this can also be run on a live repository.
>
>
>
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