Mark Phippard: >My first choice option would be to setup a repository on a >second server and use svnsync from a post-commit hook >script to sync the change. After that, I would use >svnadmin hotcopy with the new --incremental option (as of >1.8?). Dump is not a great choice for backups.
Thank you, but I should prefer a traditional backup approach. You and other posters say that dumps are poor choice, so I shall backup incremental hot copies. But the question remains that I have asked already in another reply: are hot-copies a reliable means of long-term storage. Cannot they become obsolete when a new version of SVN comes out? Are they portable across operating systems and filesystems? (I fear not) -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]
