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Re: How to fix corrupt revision in repo?

From: Neil Bird <neil_at_jibbyjobby.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:57:42 +0100

Around about 16/09/11 11:22, Tony Sweeney typed ...
> Unlike 'svnadmin dump', hotcopy will happily back up a corrupt revision
> and not tell you. It's really just a clever filesystem backup with a
> very careful time ordering of certain key files in case there is a
> transaction in progress when it runs. Having been bitten by this
> myself[*], we now run svnadmin out of cron every night before we run our
> hotcopy. We also keep a week's worth of hotcopies, and I check my cron
> emails every morning.
> [*] fsfsverify.py is your friend

   OK, thanks: I'll update our backup script!

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[neil_at_fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil_at_fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil_at_fnx ~]# exit
Received on 2011-09-16 13:58:20 CEST

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