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Re: Couple of backup questions

From: Chris Jensen <cjensen_at_edex.com.au>
Date: 2004-12-19 22:55:48 CET

>>
>> Sure. But that rule "should not run subversion on network drives" only
>> applies to BDB repositories, not FSFS ones.
>
>
> I think Bryan is asking if a BDB repository can be hotcopied to a
> network drive.
>
> I think this may well not work, since once the filesystem copy has been
> made, Berkeley DB recovery is run on the copy.

Isn't the bdb problem with network file systems only to do with locking
and concurrent use?
Surely this wouldn't be a problem in 99% of backup cases since there
would only be one backup process writing to the network file system.

Received on Sun Dec 19 22:58:00 2004

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