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RE: Backing up repository differentially

From: Gavin Lambert <gavinl_at_compacsort.com>
Date: 2007-02-14 00:19:11 CET

Quoth lightbulb432 <mailto:veerukrishnan@hotmail.com>:
> If today I back up my repository's root folder and it has 10
> revisions, and tomorrow I back up my repository with 15
> revisions, can I back up on the second day differentially?
> (i.e. back up only the 5 new revisions as opposed to all 15?)
>
> How would I do this? (Is it a filesystem issue whereby there
> are certain files that need to be copied over, or are there
> specific Subversion commands for this?)

If you know the last revision you backed up (through a mechanism outside
svn), then there are commands that will let you obtain a differential
dump starting from that revision. Have a look in the SVN book for
details on the svnadmin dump command and the various parameters you can
use with it.

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