Hello, > In order to write a backup script in the Windows batch > language, I was reading the section "Migrating Repository > Data Elsewhere" from "Repository Maintenance": > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.maint.html
The dump format is not the best option for backups. The restore time is much too slow as you need to recover from a serialized format. In many hand-baked scripts the dump method misses point-in-time recovery capabilities, and few people implement backup usability checks by loading the dump. If you have content-aware file based backup software available use that in the on-disk repository format. Just make sure you take a consistent snapshot, which can be achieved by briefly locking it (svnadmin lock) or operating on a consistent copy (svnadmin hotcopy). Andreas
