On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12, Vicky Chester <vicky.ches...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking at setting up an SVN repository using apache. I'd like to be > able to put the repository folder onto a shared network drive and have > apache run on a separate PC. The network drive gets backed up every night > whereas the PC doesn't, hense the split. > When I've been looking round how to setup apache and subversion I'm getting > conflicting views on whether to do this; some are saying that it's better if > the repository is local to the PC apache is on. Can anyone confirm whether > this is a bad idea or not? I have it working but I'm not sure whether it'll > be stable long term.
It's not a good idea to keep the repository separate from the server. Run your server on server-grade hardware with a server-grade OS and proper storage - not on a PC with a mapped network drive. You can easily run Subversion in a relatively small VM with storage located on a SAN (which will appear as a local drive to the OS and applications running on it) unless you've got a very large number of users/amount of traffic.
