How to recover repository using SVN hotcopy?

Question

Okay. I used svn\'s hotcopy to make incremental back-ups, now how do I test that the hotcopies will work properly?

I searched the posts here regarding hotcopy. Most o

Answer 1

svnadmin hotcopy will always create full copies of your repository. It is not possible to do incremental backups with svnadmin hotcopy.

svnadmin hotcopy works like a filesystem copy command, except it will never copy open transactions.

To restore a repository you can just svn hotcopy your backup to the place from which you want to serve it.

For checking the integrity of a repository use svnadmin verify

eg:

assume your svn repos are on /var/svn/repos and your backups are stored on /var/backups/svn and your repository my_project is broken.

Use:

svnadmin hotcopy /var/svn/repos/my_project /var/backups/svn/

to create a new backup (do this every day or week..) and:

svnadmin hotcopy /var/backups/svn/my_project /var/svn/repos/

to restore your backup (note: you have to remove your repo before, as hotcopy will not overwrite your old repo, also you really should look for the cause of your repository failure).

Also use:

svnadmin verify /var/svn/repos/my_project

for checking the integrity of your repository