Re: REQ: Incremental Backup (Offline)

webpost_at_tigris.org wrote:
> Somethimes you are on travel and have no access to any office SVN Repository and would like to work on your labtop....
>
> The request is to have an incremental backup from the offline work to save it to a different media (in case the labtop is stolen or ^^^) and an option to restore.
>
> The problem with patch files: It does not add any new "Added" files (uncommited) to the patch (=diff) file!
>
> svn diff > ~/fix_ugly_bug.diff
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> The question for me is whether the patch file / restore creation function should be improved or to have a special backup or restore function...

There's always brute force: get a USB flash drive or external hard drive
(they go up to 500GB in small usb-powered versions these days) and just
copy the whole workspace over. A zip or compressed tar would do, but if
you have space for the full copy you can use rsync to quickly do updates.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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