Re: How to make a backup of an SVN group of repositories

On 7/11/07, thomas Armstrong <tarmstrong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Working with SVN v1.4.2, I'm trying to make a daily backup of my
> '/home/svn-repositories' directory, where I've got 5 SVN repositories.
>
> Shall I use 'svnadmin dump' or simply copy the file contents?

A simple copy may leave you with an unusable backup, as you may get a
partial transaction in your backup. Have a look at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.backup

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Received on Wed Jul 11 14:38:08 2007