On 02/02/2011 09:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 2/2/11 2:47 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
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.
Or do a scheduled svnsync to a remote repository which will just pick up
the updates after you get the initial copy. You might need to let it run
over a weekend to get started, or make a copy locally and move it offsite.
OK, how would I go about then to completely delete the whole versioning
history?
/Daniel
