subversion to back up SQL server

I'm thinking of using subversion to back up sql server. Since SQL server
full backups should differ little from backup to backup, I was hoping that
subversion can store the full backups as deltas.

In practice, however, this doesn't seem to be happening. I just did 2 full
backups about 10 mins apart. The resulting backup file was 1.5gb. I
checked in the first file, and 10 mins later overwrote it and checked in the
second file. The revs are approximately 1.2gb each. That's 1.2gb for the
first import and 1.2gb for the change.

Does subversion not work well with files larger then a certain limit?
Should I be using some other utility instead?

Russ
Received on Thu Apr 27 18:49:59 2006