If the snapshots are atomic that's fine, though you'll potentially need to run 'svnadmin recover' before they're usable.
Running dump / verify or otherwise verifying your snapshots remains a good idea. Harry Bullen wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 14:11:29 -0500: > I'm looking at using lvm snapshots and rsync to back up a bunch of svn > repositories every night. The repositories total about 200GB (some > people might have committed movies to svn but I may not fix this) > which is why I want to do this instead of svn hotcopy, which will have > to copy all 200GB every day. I wanted to know if their is any danger > from doing this, and if anyone might have some advice for me. > > Thank you. > > -------------------------------------- > Harry William Bullen IV
