Re: hotcopy --incremental auto-upgrade Re: Backup strategy sanity check

On 8/10/2013 6:28 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 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.
>

Will make a note of what to check for future.

...

Maybe add --incremental-or-force (or some similar name) as an option.
It will, if the format/fs-type/db-format do not match, fall back to
doing a full blown hotcopy backup instead of incremental.

But it's a 'nice-to-have' and not 'required' because things changing
like this tend to be a once every 2-3 years thing. So we just work
around it.
Received on 2013-08-12 06:49:41 CEST