FSFS and Backup

[Wayne Washburn <wa...@prudentialproperties.com>]

After reading Greg's info sheet, it's my understanding that by using
svnadmin hotcopy one avoids any trouble with the commits or any other
issues related to a naive backup.  Am I interpreting this correctly?  

>Greg Hudson wrote: 

>>So what's the best way to backup fsfs type repositories? hot-backup? 
>>Or is simply copying the files appropriately enough. What happens if 
>>I backup the files somewhere else in the middle of a commit? 
>> 
>> 
> 
>I've added a note to the end of http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/info/fsfs 
>about backups. If you want to simply rsync or otherwise incrementally 
>back up an FSFS repository, you need to be prepared to do some simple 
>manual repair on the copied repository in the unlikely event that you 
>hit a commit just at the wrong point. Otherwise, use svnadmin hotcopy 
>for now.