Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 01:25:24 +0300: > Thomas Harold wrote on Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:53:43 -0400: > > With the 'svnadmin hotcopy --incremental' backups, we have to do extra > > checking in the script (comparing reponame/db/format versions) in order > > to make sure that the hotcopy runs correctly. > > > > If you have to do that, please do it correctly: > > - Check reponame/format > - Check reponame/db/fs-type > - Check reponame/db/format
... in this order. Daniel > > (And 1.9 will have 'svnadmin info' which will give you the same information) > > > It would have been nice if --incremental would automatically upgrade the > > target repository (and fallback to a full backup) if the versions > > mismatch. > > Hmm. Interesting idea, but replacing failure modes with automagical > behaviour is generally looked at with skepticism (is this error _really_ > always safe to not tell the admin about?). For the sake of argument, > why shouldn't admins who want this behaviour opt-in to it by having > their scripts do > > svnadmin upgrade $dest > svnadmin hotcopy --incremental $src $dest > > ? (Note that 'upgrade' is idempotent, and will exit without error for > already-most-recent-format repositories.) > > Cheers, > > Daniel
