backup schemes (especially on Windows)

["Charles E. Doucette" <cd...@med-learn.com>]

If anyone has figured out a good backup scheme, please share it with me/us.

I know how to do a full manual dump.

I assume that the difference between a full dump and an incremental dump is only how the first revision is dumped (full files or
changes from previous revision) and that subsequent revisions are always just deltas.

So, my question is what dump schedule do you follow and if you'd doing incremental dumps rather than always doing full dumps, how do
you do that?

Does Subversion keep track of the last version you dumped, or does any backup scheme you come up with have to track the last
revision of the previous dump and start with the next revision through the HEAD revision?

Also, do people just use hot-backup or do you use svnadmin dump instead? If hot-backup is recommended, why isn't it part of the kit
(why must you download it from the master Subversion source repository)?

Finally, how do you automate your backups - especially on Windows?

Thanks for any advice!

Chuck


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RE: backup schemes (especially on Windows)

[Arild Fines <ar...@broadpark.no>]

Charles E. Doucette wrote:
> Finally, how do you automate your backups - especially on Windows?

I have a small wrapper around hot-backup.py, which reads a list of
repositories to backup and calls hot-backup.py on each of them.

This wrapper is run by the Windows Task Scheduler every night.

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