> On Apr 7, 2019, at 4:27 PM, Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 11:27:19 -0400, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If you have a tar or other backup you ought to be fine once they are >> restored. >> You just need to make sure the permissions on the files are set properly >> once >> you restore. For example, you do not want them owned by root or something. >> So just chown -R the whole thing to the user:group that you run your svnsync >> process as and you should be fine. > > Thanks, > I have just done the tar-ing of the different repositories in > /var/lib/svn. There are 11 of them. When I tar the directories doesn't > then the Linux permissions also get copied into the tar file? > I use > sudo tar -czf svn_reponame.tgz /var/lib/svn/reponame > to do this from a rescue terminal on the not quite dead server. > Then I have copied these tgz files over to a USB thumb drive too. > They are a total of 5.4 GB in size. > > Where are the svn configurations saved such that I can apply these as > well when I eventually re-install subversion? > Basically, what settings do I need to find and back up so I can > restore the exact same server after Ubuntu has been re-installed?
There is no absolute answer because it is possible to store them anywhere, but if you are talking about Apache configuration, the standard location would be in /etc/httpd Mark
