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SVN: Taking it Further

29.12.2006

The reason for writing this article is that I recently had my powerbook die on me, and I had the bright idea of making it my primary SVN repository. While this seemed like a nice idea at the time, I’ve decided it is better to have the repository on a system with at least most than one hard drive, and carry a ‘checked out’ copy for work on the laptop.

Since I was having trouble setting up SVN on my MBP, I decided to get my single processor G5 back from repair and turn it into a 24/7 SVN box, with timed backups onto both drives.

The simplest way to go about this would be to start with a shell script, and have it not only invoke a ‘dump’ of the repository but to traverse the SVN tree and checkout each project as well. This makes it a better job for a simple gcc program and/or a mix of the two. The task of scheduling and initiating the backups would be best controlled by cron or something similar.

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