----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Schmidt" <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
To: "pantao" <pant_at_ffcs.cn>
Cc: <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: svn backup question
>
> On Feb 2, 2008, at 21:23, pantao wrote:
>
>> I would like to use xcopy to directly backup a SVN repository,
>> is it ok? I am not quite concern about the last few commition.
>> I just hope the backup contain almost all the data of the
>> repository but not must fullly all.
>
> I don't know what xcopy is, but you should be very concerned about
> getting a complete and always up-to-date backup. It will be very
> inconvenient for you if you ever find that you need to restore from
> backup, but your backup is not completely up-to-date. There are many
> backup strategies that will guarantee an up-to-date backup so you
> should choose one of them.
I see.I have use svnsync to make a up-to-date backup and would like to make
a copy to move disk at some time as additional backup.
>> And in the transaction directory, It seems there is data there
>> about fail transaction ? May I clear the failed transction data?
>
> Yes, with "svnadmin lstxns" and "svnadmin rmtxns"
It is so,I will use it. Before I think I may need to delete those directory directly.
many thanks,
PanTao
Received on 2008-02-03 09:21:34 CET