How to recover from svn hotcopy backups

Question

Our current backup process is doing a SVN HOTCOPY every night, to a backup location on a different machine. Can I somehow recover from that backup and retain all revision histo

Answer 1

"svnadmin hotcopy" actually copies the entire repository to another location. The copy is indistinguishable from the original repository, and can in fact be used as a repository itself. So, you should be able to copy the results of svnadmin hotcopy back to your repository location and have a perfectly valid, restored repository.

The advantage of hotcopy over a regular filesystem copy is that it respects Subversion's locking mechanism.