Re: value in 'svnadmin verify' cron job? (or is 'svnadmin hotcopy' enough?)

svn_at_trodman.com wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 19:12:01 -0500:
> Assuming a nightly 'svnadmin hotcopy' is run w/o errors, is
> there value in periodically running one or both of?:
>
> svnadmin verify REPO-PATHNAME 2>&1 |egrep -v '^\* Verified revision [0-9]+\.'
>
> svnadmin dump -q --deltas REPO-PATHNAME >/dev/null
>

YES.

> Goal of grep and redirects is to only display errors or warnings.
>
> --
> Does a successful 'svnadmin hotcopy' indicate a clean bill of
> health for the repository, or might 'svnadmin verify' still
> locate problems?
>

The latter.

> Would like to detect corruption in repository as soon as possible.
>

+1

> --
> thanks
> Tom
Received on 2010-09-09 12:29:39 CEST