Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Anton Shepelev
Thanks to everybody for their replies. I now understand that --incremental hot-copies are sufficient for regular backups, which can then be mirrored by content-aware file- synchronisation tools, but the problem remains of preventing an accidental propagation of corrupt data into the backup. How do

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Pierre Fourès
Le ven. 23 août 2019 à 17:10, Mark Phippard a écrit : > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:06 AM Nathan Hartman > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 9:53 AM Mark Phippard wrote: >>> >>> Anyway ... the only danger of a repository format is if you upgrade to >>> latest and then for some reason need

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:06 AM Nathan Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 9:53 AM Mark Phippard wrote: > >> Anyway ... the only danger of a repository format is if you upgrade to >> latest and then for some reason need to downgrade your server binaries to >> an older version. You can alw

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 9:53 AM Mark Phippard wrote: > Anyway ... the only danger of a repository format is if you upgrade to > latest and then for some reason need to downgrade your server binaries to > an older version. You can always use an older format with a newer version. > If you did wis

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 4:16 AM Pierre Fourès wrote: > Hello, > > Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 16:47, Mark Phippard a écrit : > > > > > >> Cannot they become obsolete when a new version of SVN comes > >> out? > > > > > > No. It is a valid copy of the repository. > > > >> Are they portable across op

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-23 Thread Pierre Fourès
Hello, Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 16:47, Mark Phippard a écrit : > > >> Cannot they become obsolete when a new version of SVN comes >> out? > > > No. It is a valid copy of the repository. > >> Are they portable across operating systems and >> filesystems? (I fear not) > > > Yes, they are absolutel