Hello, I am running a Subversion 1.9.3 server on Ubuntu 16.04. I currently use svnadmin hotcopy to safely backup the SVN repositories, but since the repositories are now hosted on a ZFS dataset, I would like to utilize ZFS's snapshot capabilities to create atomic, point-in-time backups of the repositories. My plan to do this is as follows:
1. create zfs snapshot 2. clone zfs snapshot and mount at a temporary location 3. run svnadmin hotcopy from the mounted clone to safely create a backup 4. umount and destroy clone My only concern is if a commit is in-progress when the zfs snapshot occurs, would svnadmin hotcopy still be able to safely handle creating the backup? Is this a safe procedure for creating backups? Thanks, Andrew Martin
