Hi Pascal! > what does svn hotcopy exactly do?
This subcommand makes a full “hot” backup of your repository. You could find more details here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.hotcopy.html >after duplicating a Repo with Hotcopy i have minumum 2 files less. on some >Repositorys there are differences of 20 files and up to 1 folder and 5 MB. > > is that normal? Some service files can be omitted in the copy, but that doesn't affect the availability of the repository. The current transaction could also be not included in the copy if it hasn't finished yet ( you could create the copy of the repository using "svn hotcopy" command without turning off the server service). -- Regards, Olga Dolidze VisualSVN Support