On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:17:06PM -0400, Myron A. Semack wrote: > I have an FSFS repository that is backed up nightly with svnadmin hotcopy > --incremental. It has just crossed the 80000 revisions mark, and it has > never been packed. I would like to run svnadmin pack on this repo. > > > > After I run svandmin pack, will the incremental hotcopy still work? Will the > hotcopy mirror the packing in the backup copy of the repo? Or do I need to > do a full hotcopy after packing the live repo? > > > > If I schedule svnadmin pack to happen at regular intervals (e.g. weekly), how > should I change my nightly backup strategy? > > > > I just want to make sure I do this right so I don't corrupt anything. > > > > For reference, this is a Windows server, running SVN 1.8.8, and the repo is > at FSFS version 5. > > > > Sincerely, > > Myron A. Semack >
If you don't pack and hotcopy concurrently, it's perfectly safe. If you pack and hotcopy concurrently, it's almost safe. There is a known problem with concurrent hotcopy and pack, the fix for which isn't released yet, I believe. Details here: http://svn.apache.org/r1605633
