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Re: Repository Size

From: Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com>
Date: 2007-02-27 16:45:52 CET

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:46, vanessa@dicampus.com wrote:
> If I want to do security backups, what it's the right thing to do, make a
> dumpfile or copy directly the svn repository?.

Use 'hotcopy' to clone the repository on-system and then 'svnadmin dump' to
create a dumpfile. The first is to keep the time the repository is locked low
and it also is the right way to create a copy from a live repository, i.e. it
knows which files to copy and which not (e.g. lockfiles). The second is
necessary because the dumpfile format is the format that is portable between
different platforms and SVN versions. If your server blows up you might want
to replace it with a different machine and use the chance to upgrade SVN,
too.

In order to get a backup online quickly, there is also the recently
released 'svnsync', which allows you to sync a repository to a master and in
case of failure have it already working.

> If I copy the svn repository and I restore one of that copies I can't go
> back to a before revision, isn't?

I'm not sure what you mean. In general, the repository contains the whole
history.

> (Sorry for my bad english).

If you're not sure, you can always use a different language or two languages
(English and your own) to mail here. I at least wouldn't mind.

Uli

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