edg wrote on Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 13:08:40 -0700:
> On 9/16/2011 3:22 AM, Tony Sweeney wrote:
> >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.
> >
>
>
> I have been working under the assumption that the best way to
> "verify" is by:
>
> svnadmin dump REPO > NUL ( or to ' > /dev/null' for 'nix)
>
> rather than
>
> svnadmin verify REPO
>
> The reason being that the former also checks revision property files.
>
+0.5
> See:
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-10/0512.shtml
>
See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3441
>
>
Received on 2011-09-17 02:12:37 CEST