Fouts Christopher (QNA RTP PT PREV) wrote:
> I read the manual but still have a fundamental question.
>
> Essentially I want to create a full dump on a Monday night, but
> only incremental dumps Tue-Fri nights.
>
> I run a cron job to say fully-backup my repos on a Monday night
> with
> > svnadmin dump //repos > dumpfile-full.date
>
> Now if I want to do incremental backups for Tues-Fri, will I
> then just run a cron job (Tue-Fri) that will do this?
> > svnadmin dump -incremental //repos > dumpfile-incr.date
It would be better to do incremental backups after each commit and a full backup
on Monday nights. Then have a cron that removes incrementals that are older
than say, two weeks. The incremental command in this case will just backup the
commit that happened.
Regards,
Blair
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Received on 2008-05-19 22:18:19 CEST