On 2/2/11 2:47 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 15:14, Daniel Andersson
> <list_at_daniel-gr-andersson.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I deleted a bunch of large files from our repository yesterday that was not
>> meant to be stored there. But these are still of course in the SVN history.
>>
>> I wish to do a backup each night and today I use svnadmin hotcopy for that,
>> and rsync that hotcopy to an off-site server. I chose hotcopy since it will
>> not cause any problems with anyone using the repository at the same time.
>>
>> Is it possible to delete specific large files from the history? Or do I have
>> to dump and then delete the history all together?
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal
>
>> Or could I do some kind of incremental backup instead and only a full
>> hotcopy backup each Sunday?
>
> As long as your incremental backups result in a usable repository when
> it's all restored, that can be done. svnadmin dump --incremental I
> think is what you'll need, there's no "incremental" hotcopy that I'm
> aware of.
Or do a scheduled svnsync to a remote repository which will just pick up the
updates after you get the initial copy. You might need to let it run over a
weekend to get started, or make a copy locally and move it offsite.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2011-02-02 22:00:01 CET