On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 03:02:04AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf 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. > > Ah, true. I keep forgetting about the rep cache... > I'm sorry if you felt I was mis-attributing this to you. > > All I can say in my defense is that the whole point of adding incremental > hotcopy support (which of course handles the rep-cache properly) was to > finally stop worrying and forget about such details :)
Thank you for this advice. From what I gather rep-cache.db, can be regenerated by svn. If I used rsync and excluded the rep-cache.db would I then want to run 'svnadmin recover' on these backup or is rep-cache.db regenerated automatically when the repository is used?
