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Re: Subversion backup

From: Irfan Sayed <irfu.sayed_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:47:16 +0530

there will be a proper communication well in advance will be sent to
development community mentioning the backup window with mentioning that
access to repository will be unavailable for any write / update operation
during backup so that they will also aware that daily backup happene between
specific time frame and no one will try to access svn repo.

if i am taking daily full backup then that backup shud be full proof
including all the commit operation. in my daily full backup i dont want any
commit operation left unbackedup. if backup is getting started at 11.00 PM
then all the commit operation till 10.59 PM shud be there in backup with
full data integrity.

this is what i want. because of this only i want to lock the repo. i red the
svbook but as per design as of now svn only gives file level locking
mechanism and not dir. level lock mechnaism so i cant use "svn lock" is this
correct???

as there is no any full proof lock mechanism on repo level , i dont have
other option but to stop the apache service to disable the svn URL access.

please advice.

Regards
Irfan.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Olivier Sannier <obones_at_free.fr> wrote:

> Irfan Sayed wrote:
>
>> i got the solution. as i am using apache for subversion, i will stop the
>> apache service before i start the backup so that no one will able to access
>> subversion URL
>> Thanks all
>> Regards
>> irfan
>>
>
> Except that your users won't get any message explaining why the servcr is
> down.
> Using a pre commit hook, you can put a message saying "backup in progress,
> please come back later".
>
> In the end, you're the one deciding what way you'll do things, but I always
> find it nicer to have a message explaining the situation instead of being
> left with a dead server.
>

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