Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 01:25:24 +0300:
> Thomas Harold wrote on Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:53:43 -0400:
> > With the 'svnadmin hotcopy --incremental' backups, we have to do extra
> > checking in the script (comparing reponame/db/format versions) in order
> > to make sure that the hotcopy runs correctly.
> >
>
> If you have to do that, please do it correctly:
>
> - Check reponame/format
> - Check reponame/db/fs-type
> - Check reponame/db/format
... in this order.
Daniel
>
> (And 1.9 will have 'svnadmin info' which will give you the same information)
>
> > It would have been nice if --incremental would automatically upgrade the
> > target repository (and fallback to a full backup) if the versions
> > mismatch.
>
> Hmm. Interesting idea, but replacing failure modes with automagical
> behaviour is generally looked at with skepticism (is this error _really_
> always safe to not tell the admin about?). For the sake of argument,
> why shouldn't admins who want this behaviour opt-in to it by having
> their scripts do
>
> svnadmin upgrade $dest
> svnadmin hotcopy --incremental $src $dest
>
> ? (Note that 'upgrade' is idempotent, and will exit without error for
> already-most-recent-format repositories.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
Received on 2013-08-11 00:29:16 CEST