Les Mikesell wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 19:34:10 -0600: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 23:19:58 +0100: > >> Until then, svnsync or svnadmin dump/load are the only officially > >> supported incremental backup solutions. But, as Daniel explained, > >> 'rsync' followed by 'svnadmin recover' produces valid copies of > >> FSFS repositories, too. > > > > I didn't say that, Stefan, since it's not true. rsync is not safe if > > the SQLite db is being read or written whilst rsync runs. > > You could just repeat the rsync command until nothing changes as a > quick hack. Unless the filesystem is extremely busy, that should get > a good snapshot.
Just exclude rep-cache.db from the rsync. _For now_ I think that suffices, but there is no guarantee that that will remain true into the future. 'svnadmin hotcopy' (and its incremental variant in 1.8) is the supported, forward-compatible means.