edg wrote on Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 13:08:40 -0700: > 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. >
+0.5 > See: > > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-10/0512.shtml > See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3441 > >
