Re: [Duplicity-talk] SVN Backup?

[Chris Knight]

I have a beta version of a script finished that might be perfect for
you.  It creates the backups using the svnadmin dump facility, and
after the initial full backup it only creates incremental backups of
the new check-ins.  It is perfect for reducing your transfer footprint
when creating an external backup via rsync or duplicity.  The only
drawback to its current state is that I haven't written the restore
utility yet, but the comments in the header give the basic gist of how
to restore the backup.

If you think this suits your needs, and you give it a try, I would
appreciate feedback.  I'd like to flesh this out and make it as useful
for everyone as possible,

http://www.ghostwheel.com/svnbackup-.8b.tgz

-Chris

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:02 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I need to backup an svn repository.  The correct way, apparently, is to use
> 'svnadmin hotcopy' to create a copy of the repository so that the backup is
> clean (e.g. nobody made changes to the repository while the copy was
> happening).
>
> However, each night when it creates a copy of the repository, it now has new
> time stamps on the files.  Chances are that very little changed.
>
> In testing it, it appears that duplicity ignores the file date differences.
>  Generally, what rules does duplicity (librsync?) use for knowing when a
> file is different?
>
> C.
>
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