Hi-
Dunno if this will help, but I do a nightly rsync to another location;
it avoids the full copy of hotcopy and is pretty darn fast. Since it's
a full-blown copy of the repo, all the svn stuff is there; I've been
able to restore to a new disk and it's worked perfectly.
Your milage may vary, of course, but this particular setup works for me.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:48 AM, <giulio.troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com> wrote:
> I am trying to come up with a DR plan for our Subversion server. We are using a RHEL4 server with Subversion 1.4.4 and Apache 2.0. I've read the "Repository Replication" and "Repository Backup" sections of the SVN Book, but I'm still unsure.
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> Basically there are two possibilities: using svnsync or hotcopy. In my opinion svnsync is preferable, and here's why.
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> Once the mirrored repository has been initialised and synced the first time, the amount of data sent for the next synchronisations is minimum. With a hotcopy instead, the full repository is sent every time.
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> Although svnsync does not copy changes to properties in older revision, which obviously hotcopy does, this is not a big deal to me as we only change the svn:log property for the just committed revision (to tide the revision up with our in-house bug-tracking system). I just need to be careful and call svnsync after the log has been updated.
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> In case of a DR, using hotcopy it would be just a matter of changing the DNS to point to the new IP address, and the users would never even know that we had a DR. However, I understand that if I am careful and set the UUID of the mirrored repository to the same of the real one, changing the DNS is the only thing I would have to do even if I use svnsync.
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> With svnsync, hooks are not copied. I'm actualy not sure whether that's the case with hotcopy too or not, but it doesn't matter to me. All hooks are versioned in a separate repository, so it would be just a matter of setting up the correct symbolic link.
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> Any comments on what I said so far?
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> I know that changing the mirrored repository is not recommended, but can I checkout a WC of it on the mirror server? And keep it up-to-date using the post-commit script (so that it's updated every time the repository is synced with the real one)?
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> Thanks
> Giulio
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