Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Anton Shepelev
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,

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Andreas Stieger
Hi, > > A hobbyist approach this this has lead to many instances > > of data loss in serious applications. > > While planning a backup strategy, one must consider the > possible malfunctions and ways to counteract them. How was > the data lost in the cases you describe? Literally any situation w

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Anton Shepelev
Andreas Stieger to Anton Shepelev: > > No, it depends on one's purpose. If it is to keep the > > data in case of HDD crashes, a single mirror is > > sufficient. > > A hobbyist approach this this has lead to many instances > of data loss in serious applications. While planning a backup strategy,

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Andreas Stieger
> No, it depends on one's purpose. If it is to keep the data > in case of HDD crashes, a single mirror is sufficient. A hobbyist approach this this has lead to many instances of data loss in serious applications. > again, since an SVN repository maintains its whole history, > a point-in-time

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Anton Shepelev
Andreas Stieger to 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 acci

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-24 Thread Andreas Stieger
Hello, > 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 you solve it? What the fruit do you m