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Replies: 3 - Last Post: February 04, 2010 04:12
by: Tan ChooJun

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onestop	Posted: January 30, 2010 01:46 by onestop » Permalink
	Greetings, I am not that familiar with version control, and wondering to know if I can take backup of entire project life cycle, including previous versions and history. I did 'svn up' and got only the latest version of entire project. After hearing 'Kenai" might go away, I would like take backup of all the version repository. Appreciate any pointers. Thanks in advance. Anand

wayne meissner

Posted: January 30, 2010 13:22 by wayne meissner

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I'm not sure if it works with kenai, but 'svnsync' should be able to mirror the entire subversion tree with history.

Other options, if you want to convert to git or mercurial, is to use their import tools, which will create a new git or mercurial repository, again with full svn history.

This is one of the advantages of git or mercurial - each clone _is_ a full mirror of the central repository, so it is trivial to clone it from one host, then push it to another.

Tan ChooJun

Posted: February 04, 2010 04:12 by Tan ChooJun

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The following steps is for SVN. I worked out something, here share with u... but it is still a "half-baked" solution Smile

At least these steps allow you to backup SVN repository to your local hard drive. By the way, I only test it in my local Linux platform.

1. command to download
svnsync init file://$HOME/svn_mirror/oj9mdg https://svn.kenai.com/svn/oj9mdg~subversion
2. create mostly empty (but executable) $HOME/svn_mirror/oj9mdg/hooks/pre-revprop-change script
svnsync sync file://$HOME/svn_mirror/oj9md

Note:
oj9mdg is example of my Kenai.com project

onestop	Posted: February 02, 2010 18:04 by onestop » Permalink
	Thank you, appreciate that. Had no idea before asking that 'sync' question. Was searching all over for that command, not realizing I got CSVNclnt installed. I now instlaled CSVNsrvr on top of that, and doing 'svnsync' , which in progress now. Again, thanks for your time.

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by: Tan ChooJun

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