Subversion backups how to#
Subversion backups plus#

Your repositories should be untouched by any other processes at this If httpd is disabled and you are the only user logged on, this means that `svnadmin freeze` to prevent concurrent commits to the repo while * And if you'd have to use `rsync` on a *live* repository, run * It's safe to run `svnadmin hotcopy` on a live repository. So you are planning to make a hotcopy and then transfer this hotcopy I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'quiescent' here. > with 99.9% surety that the svn repos are quiescent? > I am the only person who will be logged into the SVN server, can I expect Assuming httpd is down and I can guarantee that The svn hotcopy will give me a backup that I'm pretty sure is > I am thinking to do both an svn hotcopy to one directory, and an rsync to

Have fire drills, so should sysadmins have DR drills. Lastly, you probably owe it to your company to regularly test yourД«ackups to ensure that they are indeed viable. Night/weekend, I think the probability is pretty low that I have anyДЄs you suggested, if you can make a fancier backup script that shutsДown anyone's ability to make changes to the repo while the backup isДЇor my personal svn repos (home hobby projects) I do simple backups

Subversion backups plus#

Plus the fact that the backup jobs run in the middle of the So my collection of backups probably does And we do backups twice per week, and we keep We have some mitigating factors: we don't have just one repo, but Is committing, and thus ending up with a corrupt repo tree. Made me realize that we could be doing the backup right when someone What we've always done is a simple rsync of the repo tree. (at least) a second copy with a cloud provider (CrashPlan, BackBlaze, Scheme might be (at least) one offsite server that you control, and Cloud storage is fairly cheap these days as well. I'd then backup to at least two different machines, preferably Of course we all know RAID is not backup, but Step one would be to run your svn server with some kind of redundantДisk configuration. There is no perfect backup the best you can do is ever-decreasing Recognizes this and has budgeted appropriately. 'If we lose it, we're all out of work.' Hopefully your boss

Subversion backups how to#

Practices, and (2) how to backup svn repos specifically. I think there's two questions here: (1) what are general good backup