Comments on: Backing Up Subversion Automatically

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:04:32 +0000

Perl means I can use the same script regardless of what system I’m using. I would be trivial to convert it to a particular shell script if you prefer not to use Perl.

By: lowe

lowe — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:35:03 +0000

Is it really necessary to use perl if you mainly just use backticks to execute shell commands?

By: flihp

flihp — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:05:26 +0000

Great post. Came up very high on Google :) I just automated backups in my post-commit hook but opted for the svn-fast-backup script as provided for the fsfs repository. Works like a charm.

By: Slavi

Slavi — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:44:55 +0000

wow!
I like the idea of testing the backup!
Thanks for sharing.
Slavi

By: linux

linux — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:05:19 +0000

I use svnmirror.sh file to backup the subversion repository.

By: javaguy

javaguy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:11:30 +0000

svn-hot-backup – the python script

By: Tuan

Tuan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:37:17 +0000

Thank you. I’ve tried this script, it’s worked (modified a little).
You are great

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:43:58 +0000

Thanks for this… doing a test check-out seems like a very sensible idea. I will use this as a template for doing something similar in PHP (I’m on a Windows box and so don’t have Perl installed by default).

By: ypetiot

ypetiot — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:12:29 +0000

Excellent script, but I am just wondering what would happen if during the dumping, there’s a write action on one of the files in the repository.
What is the best way: shutdown the Apache process before the dumping and restart it after?

By: blacky

blacky — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:00:37 +0000

A very nice script indeed. I’ve got a enhancement proposal, though: use ISO-Format timestamps. Those are guaranteed to be understood by people and machines alike. date -Is produces such timestamps to second-level precision. They look like this:

2005-10-25T18:56:37+0200

Easily parseable by machines and unsuspecting non-nerdy ;) users. It also includes the timezone, which is nifty if you admin machines across time or even date borders. I’ve taken to only use ISO stamps everywhere since they can be sorted quite easily, too.