Re: svn backup strategy

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On May 4, 2010, at 02:40, Vikrama Sanjeeva wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> Please consider backing up each revision as it is committed, in a post-commit hook. That way you won't lose even a single commit if something happens. Losing even a single commit will result in a more painful restore process for you and your users.
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> What about the harddisk space ? Will it do an incremental backup after every commit ?

It will do whatever you've programmed it to do. The post-commit hook is a script that you write. So yes, you should write it to do an incremental backup of only the revision that just got committed.

Doing full non-incremental backups on a regular basis is probably a good idea as well.
Received on 2010-05-04 09:47:08 CEST