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I am running a SVN server on my Windows Server and want to schedule an automated backup procedure. I will always be the only one working on the repository. Should I bother with hotcopy or can I use a simple Windows backup application to backup the repositories? What about xcopy or robocopy?
I find simply copy / pasting (XCopy) the repositories is the easiest solution. You may want to consider dumping the repository to a single file before you copy it as I find copying a single large file is much quicker than copying a bunch of smaller files. This probably isn’t an issue if your repository is small, but something to consider: