Re: Backup strategy sanity check

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm planning my upgrade to SVN 1.8 & to go along with it, setting up a
> new backup process. Here's what I'm thinking:
>
> * Monday overnight, take a full backup (svnadmin hotcopy, then
> compress the result for storage)
> * Tuesday through Sunday overnights, incremental backups (svnadmin
> dump --incremental, compress the result)

Why not do this from a post-commit hook? That would reduce your
exposure. Also note that there is a new --incremental option on
svnadmin hotcopy. So the hook could even just do that.

> * After completing the Monday night full backup, purge the previous
> week's incrementals.
> * After completing the Monday night full backup, run svnadmin pack

Running pack would probably make the idea of continuing to use hotcopy
not work right.

> Will svnadmin pack have a significant impact on the incremental backup
> I take the following day(s)? I'm guessing not because those are dumps
> and not hotcopies, but want to be sure.

I cannot see why it would impact a dump.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/