On 9/16/2011 3:22 AM, Tony Sweeney wrote:
Unlike 'svnadmin dump', hotcopy will happily back up a corrupt revision and not tell you. It's really just a clever filesystem backup with a very careful time ordering of certain key files in case there is a transaction in progress when it runs. Having been bitten by this myself[*], we now run svnadmin out of cron every night before we run our hotcopy. We also keep a week's worth of hotcopies, and I check my cron emails every morning.
I have been working under the assumption that the best way to "verify" is by:
svnadmin dump REPO > NUL ( or to ' > /dev/null' for 'nix) rather than svnadmin verify REPO The reason being that the former also checks revision property files. See: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-10/0512.shtml
