Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:52 AM Anton Shepelev wrote: > > [replying via Gmane] > > Andreas Stieger: > > >The dump format is not the best option for backups. The > >restore time is much too slow as you need to recover from a > >serialized format. In many hand-baked scripts the dump > >method misses

RE: Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Bo Berglund
Gosh, that means updating the production server as well as the Ubuntu backup server then... The production server is on Windows Server 2016 or maybe later and is using VisualSvnServer. Oh, well... Best Regards, Bo Berglund From: Nathan Hartman [mailto:ha

Re: Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:03 AM Bo Berglund wrote: > It runs svn 1.9.7 as does the production server at the company. 1.9.7 has a bug related to files whose size is an exact multiple of 16,384 or 65,536 or something. I don't remember the exact details or whether that's client or server side. But

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Anton Shepelev
Mark Phippard: >Almost no one uses the BDB repository format. The fsfs >format became the default in SVN 1.1 or 1.2 and it is the >only format used anymore. Phew. We do have FSFS. Thank you. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Mark Phippard
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:55 AM Anton Shepelev wrote: > Mark Phippard to Anton Shepelev about hot copies: > > >>Are they portable across operating systems and > >>filesystems? (I fear not) > > > >Yes, they are absolutely portable across OS and FS. As is > >the repos itself. The only issue when

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Anton Shepelev
Mark Phippard to Anton Shepelev about hot copies: >>Are they portable across operating systems and >>filesystems? (I fear not) > >Yes, they are absolutely portable across OS and FS. As is >the repos itself. The only issue when going across these >is managing the OS level permissions of the copy.

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Mark Phippard
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:38 AM Anton Shepelev wrote: > Mark Phippard: > > >My first choice option would be to setup a repository on a > >second server and use svnsync from a post-commit hook > >script to sync the change. After that, I would use > >svnadmin hotcopy with the new --incremental op

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Anton Shepelev
Mark Phippard: >My first choice option would be to setup a repository on a >second server and use svnsync from a post-commit hook >script to sync the change. After that, I would use >svnadmin hotcopy with the new --incremental option (as of >1.8?). Dump is not a great choice for backups. Thank

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Pierre Fourès
Hello, Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 15:52, Anton Shepelev a écrit : > > Andreas Stieger: > > >The dump format is not the best option for backups. The > >restore time is much too slow as you need to recover from a > >serialized format. In many hand-baked scripts the dump > >method misses point-in-time r

Re: Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Pierre Fourès
Hello, Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 13:46, Andreas Stieger a écrit : > > The only extra consideration that would need to be made is when using > write-through proxying (SVNMasterURI). Merely noting for completeness that > you would need an extra Location block in your httpd configuration. But your >

RE: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:38:02 -0400, Mark Phippard wrote: >My first choice option would be to setup a repository on a second server >and use svnsync from a post-commit hook script to sync the change. After >that, I would use svnadmin hotcopy with the new --incremental option (as of >1.8?). Dump

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Anton Shepelev
[replying via Gmane] Andreas Stieger: >The dump format is not the best option for backups. The >restore time is much too slow as you need to recover from a >serialized format. In many hand-baked scripts the dump >method misses point-in-time recovery capabilities, -> Why should I need those if SV

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Mark Phippard
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:16 AM Anton Shepelev wrote: > [Having failed to post this message via Gmane, I am sending it by e-mail] > > Hello, all > > In order to write a backup script in the Windows batch > language, I was reading the section "Migrating Repository > Data Elsewhere" from "Repositor

Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Andreas Stieger
Hello, > In order to write a backup script in the Windows batch > language, I was reading the section "Migrating Repository > Data Elsewhere" from "Repository Maintenance": > >http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.maint.html The dump format is not the best option for backups. The

Questions about a script for regular backups

2019-08-22 Thread Anton Shepelev
[Having failed to post this message via Gmane, I am sending it by e-mail] Hello, all In order to write a backup script in the Windows batch language, I was reading the section "Migrating Repository Data Elsewhere" from "Repository Maintenance": http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmi

RE: Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:45:52 +0200, "Andreas Stieger" wrote: >Hello, > >> If I create a "Private" repository on this server and store my projects >> in that repository, can it interfere with the backed up repos? > >This works without issues as long as the repository names are separate. > >> AFAI

Re: Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Andreas Stieger
Hello, > If I create a "Private" repository on this server and store my projects > in that repository, can it interfere with the backed up repos? This works without issues as long as the repository names are separate. > AFAIK you cannot write anything in a synced repository except via > svnsync

Using a backup server as local svn handler?

2019-08-22 Thread Bo Berglund
I have a fully updated Ubuntu Server 18 LTS sitting in my home LAN acting as a subversion backup server for my company via svnsync. It runs svn 1.9.7 as does the production server at the company. So I have set it up with the same repositories as on the production server (which is on Windows Serve

Windows Client Service User Profile: Can't determine the user's config path

2019-08-22 Thread Rob
Hello! We are attempting to run `svn info` against a working copy as a service user on Windows Server 2019. The user in question has never actually logged onto the server, therefore there is no existing user profile for that user. We were previously using svn.exe from the 1.7 branch; we noticed t