Re: SVN backup with lvm snapshots and rsync

If the snapshots are atomic that's fine, though you'll potentially need
to run 'svnadmin recover' before they're usable.

Running dump / verify or otherwise verifying your snapshots remains
a good idea.

Harry Bullen wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 14:11:29 -0500:
> I'm looking at using lvm snapshots and rsync to back up a bunch of svn
> repositories every night. The repositories total about 200GB (some
> people might have committed movies to svn but I may not fix this)
> which is why I want to do this instead of svn hotcopy, which will have
> to copy all 200GB every day. I wanted to know if their is any danger
> from doing this, and if anyone might have some advice for me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Harry William Bullen IV
Received on 2012-02-14 22:09:11 CET