I'm planning my upgrade to SVN 1.8 & to go along with it, setting up a new backup process. Here's what I'm thinking:
* Monday overnight, take a full backup (svnadmin hotcopy, then compress the result for storage) * Tuesday through Sunday overnights, incremental backups (svnadmin dump --incremental, compress the result) * After completing the Monday night full backup, purge the previous week's incrementals. * After completing the Monday night full backup, run svnadmin pack * Keep the last 6 full backups on local disk (these will be kept written to the corporate backup system, so we can go back further if needed). I'm saving the packing for after the Monday full backup so that in case something goes wrong with it, I have the full backup right there that I can restore from. Will svnadmin pack have a significant impact on the incremental backup I take the following day(s)? I'm guessing not because those are dumps and not hotcopies, but want to be sure. I recognize that this isn't 100% air-tight, in that we're exposed during the workday, but based on the size of our repositories & the frequency of commits, standing up another server to act as an svnsync mirror or adding the complexity of making a backup of each commit when it happens is more than I can get away with right now. Aside from that, is this a sound strategy? Have I overlooked anything?