Re: svnadmin dump of hot repository

# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Greg Loscombe
# on Friday 04 March 2005 08:08 am:

>I wrote a little backup script in Python using svnadmin --dump  -
>basically a way to do an incremental backup on several repos. nightly
>(or whenever)
>
>http://www.svnforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=183

The trouble with running from a cron job is that you have to ask the
repository what its revision number is, check that it is greater than
the last backup, etc. With a hook-script, you only backup when there
has been a commit and the repository tells you the revision number.

>I'm not really a programmer (just the SVN admin) - so it might look a
>little nasty, but it seems to do the trick =)
>
>Any improvements or feedback would be great.

You should look at the inc_backup and scheduler programs that I wrote.
This allows you to configure the backup schedule on a per-repository
basis based on how many revisions have been committed.

http://scratchcomputing.com/developers/

If you want help setting them up, let me know.

--Eric

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