svn backup strategy

From: Vikrama Sanjeeva <viki.sanjeeva_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 19:09:58 +0300

Hello,

We've recently shifted to SVN. Suppose there are three repositories R1, R2
and R3. And each repostory has three projects in it.

So we have:
R1: P1, P2, P3
R2: P1, P2, P3
R3: P1, P2, P3

R1-P1 and R1-P2 are changed almost daily, whereas, R1-P3 is changed very
rare (once a month)

Change of rate in remaining repos R2 and R3 is also very rare (once in a
month)

I call R1-P1 and R1-2 as "Active Repositories" whereas, R2 & R3 as "Sleeping
Repositories".

In this case, I am more interested to take full backup of my active
repository once a week and daily incremental backup.

And for Sleeping repositories, I am interested to take full backup once a
month.

Please comment on above strategy.

Also, is it ok to use "hot-backup.py" for full backups and and "svnadmin
dump myrepo --incremental " for incremental backups ?

Thanks,

Bye,
Viki.
Received on 2010-05-03 18:24:21 CEST