On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:08:28PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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) > > Insufficient. You also need the Apache or svnserve or SSH configs, and > the varoius commit scripts from the base repository, along with their > ownership and permissions. Tarballs are good, "rsync -avH" is even > better for imaging such loactions in a decodable format.
Well, actually, a hotcopy includes hook scripts and config stored inside the repository directory. A dump file does not. I suppose you're confusing the two? Andy, if you're upgrading to 1.8, perhaps the new incremental hotcopy feature can help you: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#incremental-hotcopy You might also want to consider making use of 'svnadmin freeze': http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#svnadmin-freeze