On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +1100, Winston Smith wrote: > > > > repo(s) is/are on a permanently mounted USB disk. > > > > The USB stick might give you less i/o throughput than an internal hard > > disk, and it might fail early due to flash wearing out. > > I believe I mentioned a disk, not a stick. But thanks anyway...
Ah, sorry I misread what you wrote. All these zillions of storage methods can be confusing. Just recently someone (not me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had been me) was saying that the Apache Software Foundation's Subversion repository was hosted on an SD card for performance reasons but really meant SSD :) > > using > > 'svnadmin hotcopy' to copy your repositories to it once a week or so > > Yes, I planned to do that for a read-only backup repository as part of > various backup schedules (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Unfortunately there is no incremental hotcopy support yet, see http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3815 If you ensure that no commits happen during the backup period you could use rsync instead.
