Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

Thank you for your comments, Andreas:

> Literally any situation where the undesired change to be
> recovered from happened before this last and single copy
> was taken.

I am going to prevent this by means of `svnadmin verify':

> > Is it practical to call it [verify] daily with a several
> > Gb, several thousand-revision repository?
>
> Again, you don't need to care about how long the backup
> takes. Only about it's consistency and the time to restore
> in a restore event.

Then I propose the following strategy:

1. Maintain a repository mirror by calling
     svnadmin hotcopy --incremental
   from a post-commit hook.

2. Store the last verified hot-copy in an archive:

   a. make a hot copy of the mirror

   b. verify this secondary hot-copy in order not to lock
      the mirror for a long time,

   c. archive the secondary hot-copy in a format with error-
      correction, such as .rar. I haven't found a free,
      stable, and easiliy available archiver with built-in
      error-correcion.

Of course, my script will notify the administrator of errors
at any step.

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