On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 15:14, Daniel Andersson <l...@daniel-gr-andersson.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I deleted a bunch of large files from our repository yesterday that was not > meant to be stored there. But these are still of course in the SVN history. > > I wish to do a backup each night and today I use svnadmin hotcopy for that, > and rsync that hotcopy to an off-site server. I chose hotcopy since it will > not cause any problems with anyone using the repository at the same time. > > Is it possible to delete specific large files from the history? Or do I have > to dump and then delete the history all together?
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal > Or could I do some kind of incremental backup instead and only a full > hotcopy backup each Sunday? As long as your incremental backups result in a usable repository when it's all restored, that can be done. svnadmin dump --incremental I think is what you'll need, there's no "incremental" hotcopy that I'm aware of.
