On 1/17/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> Alex Harford wrote:
>
> > Because you shouldn't run a file level backup on a live repository.
>
> That's a pretty blanket statement, and as such plain wrong. I can and do
> run file level backups on my repository (cvsnt on Win2k),

>From the rest of my reply, it's obvious that I was referring to an SVN
repository, not every type of version control system.

> and there's
> nothing problematic with it. The repository is at any point in time in a
> consistent state, and so is the backup.

However, this is still incorrect in regards to CVS.  While you are
doing a backup (tar or what have you), files could be checked in or
moved and you may only grab some of them.  At this point, the repo is
not in a consistent state, and restoring from this backup would
require manual labour to get it working.

Alex

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