Re: using subversion as a workstation backup mechanism

On Mar 13, 2006, at 22:13, Tim Harvey wrote:

> - automate a script that runs nightly (via task scheduler) on the
> user workstation that does the following:
> - svn add all new files
> - svn del all missing files
> - svn commit
>
> Does anyone see any issues with this? [snip]

That's a bad idea:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#wc-change-detection

> - have other people implemented automated backup mechanisms using
> this concept

I would recommend looking for software designed to back up
workstations, and not try to make a revision control system do this.

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Received on Tue Mar 14 12:15:53 2006