hot-backup.py question

[Oftenwrong Soong <of...@yahoo.com>]

Hi all,

I want to automatically backup my repository once per day. The Subversion book 
pointed me to svnadmin hotcopy and to the Python script hot-backup.py.in, which 
is found under tools/backup/ in the source tarball.

Why is the file called hot-backup.py.in and not simply hot-backup-py? Does the 
".in" indicate that this is an include file for a larger Python script 
somewhere? (I'm asking because I do not know Python.)

Also, where can I find information on how to use this script?

In case it matters, I am using subversion-1.6.15.

Thanks,
Soong



      

Re: hot-backup.py question

[Oftenwrong Soong <of...@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, January 17, 2011 1:34:24 PM, Ryan 
Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> ".in" is not anything to do with python specifically; it means that
> it is a template file, and that a process (typically a Makefile or
> a configure script) will replace some placeholders in that template
> with actual values in order to transform it into a real usable
> program.
> 
> In the case of hot-backup.py.in, the only placeholder seems to be
> "@SVN_BINDIR@" which occurs twice near the top of the script. If
> you like, you can bypass the usual process and replace the
> placeholders with the correct values manually.

Thank you for this explanation. It cleared up a bit on confusion on my part. I 
copied the file, removed the ".in" from the filename, replaced the two 
@SVN_BINDIR@ references with the absolute path, and it appears to do what it's 
supposed to.

Meanwhile, I found a nice HOWTO for setting up cron to run this script:
http://www.question-defense.com/2009/12/20/backing-up-subversion-repositories-using-hot-backup-py


      

Re: hot-backup.py question

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 13:34, Oftenwrong Soong wrote:

> Why is the file called hot-backup.py.in and not simply hot-backup-py? Does the 
> ".in" indicate that this is an include file for a larger Python script 
> somewhere? (I'm asking because I do not know Python.)

".in" is not anything to do with python specifically; it means that it is a template file, and that a process (typically a Makefile or a configure script) will replace some placeholders in that template with actual values in order to transform it into a real usable program.

In the case of hot-backup.py.in, the only placeholder seems to be "@SVN_BINDIR@" which occurs twice near the top of the script. If you like, you can bypass the usual process and replace the placeholders with the correct values manually.