Dear SVN experts, I am on a Debian linux system.
My fs-type is fsfs. My svn version is 1.10.4 I am using a project management tool called Redmine which is the front end for SVN projects and which in turn is relying on Apache as a web server. 1. I wish to use : svnadmin dump my-repository > my-repository-backup.dump on a daily basis at the same time to backup my-repository. Then I think that I do *** not *** need to turn off Apache while doing the above. Suppose a commit is in process while I am running the above command. I think SVN supports concurrency as far as commits go. But does SVN support concurrency while using svnadmin dump? I do not mind losing out information on that ONE commit since the next day that ONE particular commit will get dumped into my-repository-backup.dump. Is there any disadvantage to doing an svndump on a LIVE system ? Will we experience transaction anomalies if we do this? Is there a way to setup isolation levels for transactions in Subversion like in databases? I do not wish to use svnadmin hotcopy since it's output is not as portable as svnadmin dump's output. I would need the same filesystem to restore the svnadmin hotcopy output. 2. Suppose the www-data user is writing to the SVN repositories. My query is : Should I put the backup cron job into the www-data user's crontab or the root user's crontab? My repository is owned by user : www-data and group : root Many thanks, Ashim PS: I am not subscribed to this list so please CC me while responding to this email.
