Re: Question about hot-backup.py

Robert Dailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that hot-backup.py does not create a dump file of the
> repository, but instead copies the filesystem directory tree directly
> and compresses that. Was this intentional? Is there a way to force it to
> perform a dump first?
>

It was intentional.

Dumps and hotcopies are two different things.

hot-backup.py is a script that works on the "svnadmin hotcopy" commands
and not the "svnadmin dump" commands.

For further details see:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.backup

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Received on 2008-10-08 20:26:13 CEST