Re: full backup of repository

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:38, Tony wrote:
> Reading "Version Control with Subversion" on backing up a repository, it
> discusses using hot-backup.py for a full backup.
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.6
>
> If I want to backup my repository to burn on a CD can I just tar my
> complete repository directory?
>
> I am using SVN on Linux.
>
> Tony

I'd rather not tar the live repository... it *should* work but there's no
guarantee. Especially if you're using BDB: say you tar it on a x86 and then
untar it on a x86-64 system it won't work.

The "official" way to do a full backup is to dump the repository with
"svnadmin dump /path/to/repository >repo.dump" (at least that's what we do).

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