Backup of a FSFS repository

[thomas mauch <Th...@swisslog.com>]

Hello
 
I read the notes about backing up a FSFS repository in
 
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
 
I'm not quite sure however how I have to interpret the last paragraph:
So, if you are using standard backup tools to make backups of a FSFS
repository, configure the software to copy the "current" file before
the numbered revision files, if possible, and configure it not to copy
the "transactions" directory.  If you can't do those things, use
"svnadmin hotcopy", or be prepared to cope with the very occasional
need for manual repair of the repository upon restoring it from
backup.

What is meant with manual repairing a repository? As written in the
paragraph
above, this seams to be errors which svnadmin recover does not (yet)
fix.
But will svnadmin verify give such a detailled error message that the 
administrator knows what to do? Or is there a description what to do if
such a backup is damaged? Or is there already development under the way
to
improve svnadmin recover as proposed in the notes about FSFS?

Many thanks,
Thomas



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Re: Backup of a FSFS repository

[Phillip Susi <ps...@cfl.rr.com>]

If you want to do a hot backup, then use svnadmin hotcopy, otherwise, 
just backup like normal while nobody is accessing the repository.  I 
have my nightly backup script shut down apache before taring up the 
filesystem.

thomas mauch wrote:
> Hello
>  
> I read the notes about backing up a FSFS repository in
>  
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
>  
> I'm not quite sure however how I have to interpret the last paragraph:
> So, if you are using standard backup tools to make backups of a FSFS
> repository, configure the software to copy the "current" file before
> the numbered revision files, if possible, and configure it not to copy
> the "transactions" directory.  If you can't do those things, use
> "svnadmin hotcopy", or be prepared to cope with the very occasional
> need for manual repair of the repository upon restoring it from
> backup.
> 
> What is meant with manual repairing a repository? As written in the
> paragraph
> above, this seams to be errors which svnadmin recover does not (yet)
> fix.
> But will svnadmin verify give such a detailled error message that the 
> administrator knows what to do? Or is there a description what to do if
> such a backup is damaged? Or is there already development under the way
> to
> improve svnadmin recover as proposed in the notes about FSFS?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Thomas
> 


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