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Son of the Wai-Pan
Asked: 2009-12-22 01:05:36 +0800 CST

Is it safe to zip/tar hotcopied svn repositories?

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We want to store our backups of our svn repositories as a flat file. We'd like to tar/zip the whole hotcopied directory. I know that we could dump it to a flat file but let's pretend that we'd rather use hotcopy instead. Are there any gotchas (i.e. byte-order caveats) with zipping/tarring svn repositories?

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  1. Best Answer

    SVN repositories are simply files in a directory structure. So the short answer is yes, it is safe !

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  2. to be on the safe side you can always run 

    svnadmin dump /some/repo | bzip2 > /some/file

    more here. this is the backup / migration method for svn.

    on the other hand... i've been zipping repositories few times [ although they were idle ] and never had any problems with recovering, but recoveries were done on the same architecture.

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