Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ritesh Nadhani [mailto:riteshp@webyog.com] Sent: Friday,
January 07, 2005 12:05 AM
>> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Backup strategies
>>
>>
>> Reading the docs the various methods to backup a repository are:
>>
>> 1.) svnadmin dump --incremental
>> 2.) Do a complete backup of the folder? (it is supposed to be unsafe
as somebody might be checking at that time)
>> 3.) use hot-backup.py.
>>
>> We are little biased towards the second option as we know that
nobody is checking when we are doing a backup. Its only 4 of us and we
do the backup on rewritable cd, 2 times a week.
> I think I heard/read somewhere that #2 isn't safe to do, but I may be
> remembering incorrectly. Does anyone more knowledgeable know if this is
> safe? #3 seems to do the same thing as #2, but without having to worry
> about corrupting the repository as you're copying. maybe it also
> handles the fact that the copy is somewhere other than the original
> location as well???
#2 is exactly what I do at home for my personal projects. svnserve runs
from xinetd on my eMac, and I access the repository from any of another
three computers. I know that I'm the only person accessing the
repository, so I simply copy the repository to a CD-RW.
Perhaps a bulletproof safety method is to modify /etc/xinetd.d/svn to
disable svnserve, then HUP xinetd so no more repository access is
allowed, then do the repo copy?
I haven't had any crashes, and I don't expect any (but no one expects
the Spanish Inquisition), so I hope my backups are good ... I'd
appreciate any other insights.
-a
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Received on Mon Jan 10 18:31:42 2005