Backup

Standard Routine

Make sure the SubVersion server is running:

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Backup the repository:

svn-hot-backup /var/svn/ /home/patrick/backup/svn/

Compress the file (in this example the backup file was up to revision 69):

cd /home/patrick/backup/svn/
tar cvfz svn-69.tgz svn-69/

Copy to a Windows workstation using SCP and copy to CD.

Mirror

• Mirroring Repositories with svnsync

• Mirroring Subversion from Windows

Older Notes

How to do a backup/dump

The following command will backup the repository in /var/svn/ to the specified folder:

svn-hot-backup /var/svn/ /home/patrick/backup/svn_2005_feb_17

Login to linux server as root.

Change directory to /svnbackups

cd /svnbackups

Make a directory with today’s date : eg 06July2005

mkdir 06July2005

Change directory to /var/svn

cd /var/svn

Run the SVN backup:

svn-hot-backup /var/svn /svnbackups/06July2005

Change directory to /svnbackups

cd /svnbackups

Compress the directory

tar cvfz SVN_07July2005.tgz 07July2005/

Move the tgz file to a windows machine using winSCP.