What is the best way to archive a repository

Greetings

I have several old repositories I need to archive and take offline.
What is the best way to do this? I have done it two different ways
myself.

Method 1 : make a hotcopy to a temp location, tar up and gzip that
hotcopy, remove original.

Method 2 : copy conf and hooks dir to a temp location, make a dumpfile
of repository, tar up conf, hooks and dump file, gzip the tar file and
remove original

Is there any reason 1 is worse than 2? My thought is that at some
point in the future (say n years from now), a new version of svn would
be more likely to read the dumpfile than a very old version of the
repository? Is this not a concern?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks
Troy

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Received on Mon Nov 26 18:58:06 2007