On 25.06.2005, at 04:07, Chris Jensen wrote:
> Just curious, is performing "svnadmin dump" on a repository that
> may also be accessed by users (over webdav) safe?
> Is there any reason it shouldn't be done?
>
> The book doesn't seem to say one way or another. Though I've
> noticed users mentioning that their backup solutions involve using
> "svn-hot-backup" and then running "svnadmin dump" off the hot
> backup rather than the live repository.
The feeling I got from reading many messages here is that the hot-
backup-and-then-dump procedure is required for BDB repositories but
for FSFS repositories you can just dump the live repository. I
believe I heard that the worst "corruption" that can occur as a
result is that your dump contains one revision file more than the
indicated largest revision, but that this does not pose a problem.
Your dump then simply does not contain that latest revision. But a
BDB hot-copy-then-dump would not have contained it either (because
the revision came in while you were doing the backup).
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Received on Sat Jun 25 13:12:16 2005