On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:43:29PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Mark Phippard wrote on Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:40:43 -0500: > > 2. The easier approach is the start-commit hook. Just have a single master > > hook-script that all repositories are symlinked to. Assuming you do not > > use this hook for anything else, you can just have it in place with content > > like: > > > > exit 0; > > > > Then when you are doing a backup you change it to something like: > > > > echo "Server is in read-only mode for backup. It should be available again > > within N minutes" > > exit 1; > > If you do this, you need to do the check in pre-revprop-change too, > because revprop changes don't call start-commit; and also in pre-commit, > in case a commit-in-flight is currently uploading data — has passed > start-commit but not yet called pre-commit.
And pre-lock :)
