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

[Hans Fangohr]

Hi Erik,

thank you for your reply.

> Backup all .bzr directories and you should be ok.

just to double check: will this be okay if -- while I am copying these
directories -- somebody is committing to the repository?

If so, maybe this should go into the documentation (as I couldn't find it).

Thanks again,

Hans



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> /Erik
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 2007 nov 16, at 12.50, Hans Fangohr <h.fangohr at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> 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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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