How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos?
Its on a Windows Server 2003 machine, I was thinking about just doing an xcopy of the folder C:\Repo but I’m not familiar enough with svn to know if that will cause issues.
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How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos?
Its on a Windows Server 2003 machine, I was thinking about just doing an xcopy of the folder C:\Repo but I’m not familiar enough with svn to know if that will cause issues.
Save me SO!
The proper approach is to use svnadmin hotcopy to create a copy of
c:\Repothen archive that copy to tape or off-site storage or whatever. The Subversion Book‘s chapter on Repository Maintenance has more details.