RE: svn backup question

This topic is covered in the subversion book.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

If you simply copy the files, and any svn transaction happens during the
copy, you're at risk of having a corrupt backup. If you disable all
access to the repository and copy the files, you should be fine.

The recommended backup method is to use hot-backup.py, which eliminates
these problems and produces a reliable backup every time.

From: pantao [mailto:pant_at_ffcs.cn]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:24 PM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: svn backup question

Hi,

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.

And in the transaction directory, It seems there is data there

about fail transaction ? May I clear the failed transction data?

many thanks,

PanTao

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