What is a safe way of backing up a shared bzr repository

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 13:33:12 GMT 2007


Backup all .bzr directories and you should be ok.

/Erik

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On 2007 nov 16, at 12.50, Hans Fangohr <h.fangohr at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> following the instructions given at
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/centralized_workflow.html 
> ,
>
> I have created a shared repository on the server with
>
> bzr init-repo --no-trees bzr+ssh://my.server.name.uk/Users/bzr/ 
> documents
>
> Here is my question: what is the safe and recommded method to make
> backups of this repository? Can I just take a file copy of the
> subdirectory (i.e. tar it up and store it somewhere)? Or should I be
> more careful (for svn one can use the hot-backup.py script, or dumpy
> the data base into a text file, but a direct copy of the file systems
> is not recommenden [in case somebody in committing as you copy the
> files]).
>
> Any advice (or pointers to the documentation [which I have searched
> before]) would be welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Hans
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> --
> Hans Fangohr
>
> School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton Phone: +44 (0) 238059 8345
>
> Email: fangohr at soton.ac.uk
> http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr
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