On 30 July 2012 20:52, Fernando Gomes <fernando.go...@grupospring.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a rather experienced developer and I’m currently trying to use SVN to > back up a batch of files automatically every X hours. The problem is that > some of the files are open and the commit fails entirely. > I have managed to invoke a non-persistent Shadow Copy over the volume but > since I am not using a windows server but windows 7 the shadow copy is > read-only. (I am using the vscsc.exe variant of the Shadow Copy SDK from > Microsoft). > > Everything would work just fine if this Shadow Copy was write-enabled because > the .svn folder files cannot be edited and because so the script (running > "svn add" or "svn commit") cannot complete. > > Has anyone tried this scenario before? If so is there any way to invoke a > simple "svn commit" over open files (using shadow copy or not) on an > non-server based operating system? > > Thank you for any thoughts, > > Fernando M. A. Gomes >
Subversion is not a backup system. Usually you would arrange for a separate system to backup your Subversion repositories. I can't help feeling there is a better tool out there for your use-case. -- Mat Booth Software Engineer WANdisco, Inc. http://www.wandisco.com
