On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:13:15AM -0400, Thomas Harold wrote: > Right now, the size of our dumpfile directory is 207G, while the > hotcopy is only 104G. So the size savings could be big for us. The > hotcopy backup is still our preferred solution, with the dump files > being a worst-case fallback.
Please try the new svnadmin hotcopy --incremental. It should accellerate your backup process.