Automatic backups with Subversion
15 April 2007 | Matt Perdeaux | Backend, Subversion
Just thought I would quickly share a pretty powerful way of backing up subversion repositories.
Basically, it involves a Windows batch file:
@ECHO OFF
set vcReposRoot={svn repository root}
set vcDumpRoot={location of backup directory}
cd /d %vcReposRoot%
for /d %%a in (*) do (
svnadmin dump %vcReposRoot%\%%a > %vcDumpRoot%\%%a.dmp
)
set vcReposRoot={svn repository root}
set vcDumpRoot={location of backup directory}
cd /d %vcReposRoot%
for /d %%a in (*) do (
svnadmin dump %vcReposRoot%\%%a > %vcDumpRoot%\%%a.dmp
)
The script loops through all our repositories and does an svnadmin dump command for each of them, which writes a recoverable dump file to a network drive. We then schedule the batch file to run nightly.
