2010/3/3 Mariusz Droździel <mdrozdz...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > After spending almost 2 days on recovering broken FSFS, which turned > out to be broken for over year already I have a question. What are > suggested best practices for SVN Repo? Some kind of cronbot which > would do a verify and a full checkout dialy comes to mind. What else? > Are there any scripts to do dialy checks on repo out there already? > What do you suggest? Thanks in advance. >
one idea: I have read-only (svnsync) clones of all my important repositories in a separate building from the real svn server. This happened more by accident than by design: my continuous build checks out from the clones instead of the original repository. That way, I don't have to worry about my build jobs flooding the central server with polling to see if anything has changed yet. (There is some of this, however, since there's a cron job to keep the repositories up-to-date. This has helped me diagnose and repair repository corruption in one case, and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling (despite the fact that I've been told that the central svn server is backed up). // ben
