Michael Schwager wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:58:18 -0500: > We are very paranoid about our Subversion repo, notwithstanding the fact > that the previous sysadmin didn't back it up. But that's another story. Now > I'm here at my job, I've inherited the repo admin duties, and I want to > back it up reliably. If we lose it, we're all out of work. > > My question is: How do I back it up reliably,
I would recommend svnsync. It should be more robust than 'hotcopy' due to the way they are implemented: 'svnsync' wraps 'log' and 'commit' while 'hotcopy' is implemented by a dedicated codepath which bypasses the usual filesystem-internal reading/writing APIs. Cheers, Daniel
