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Create a pre-commit hook in /home/subversion/backups//hooks/pre-revprop-change: We need to enable the possibility to do revprop changes on this repository, so we can correctly sync all revision attributes (committer, time stamp, etc), which are usually read only, from the remote server. Svnadmin create /home/subversion/backups/ On your backup server, create a new repository: I’ll assume you have a working Subversion repository reachable over the network already.

PrerequisitesĪll we need for this is the subversion package on the backup server – instruction for Debian and derivatives:

#VISUALSVN SERVER BACKUP REPOSITORY HOW TO#

I have not personally tested this, you can likely find some useful hints on how to do this on Not Really a blog.

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There are a few drawbacks to this: you need administrative access to the source repository to install a commit hook, you need to make your backup server’s repository available over http or ssh from the source server, and you may encounter some issues committing in case the sync fails (server down?). On automatically syncing to a remote backup server on-commitĪnother way which gives you instant backups is to run svnsync from the source server in a commit hook. This can be done by rsyncing or rdiff-backup’ing the SVN server’s repository directories of course, but with this method you can do it simply by having only Subversion access to a any network reachable repository.

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Simply checking out the code on a remote machine does not give you the full history – only the last version of a file is stored upon checkout using Subversion. Use case is a (dedicated) backup server that retrieves a full backup copy of a repository at scheduled times, and the backup server initiates the backup autonomously. Now in “C:\svn backup” create a batch file called svnbackup.bat with the contents below.In this article, I will discuss how to back up a remote Subversion repository to a local one.

Clean up the local backup on the serverĬreate a new folder called “C:\svn backup” inside that create a temp folder “c:\svn backup\temp” this will be location where we’ll copy our SVN backup to before moving it to S3.

Now we need to create a batch file which will perform the following steps This is the key part to the backup this smart little app will handle synchronising the SVN backup into the S3 bucket we have created.Ĥ.

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Download and install the free application S3Sync. Make a note of these values since we’ll need to add them to our batch file in step 4.ģ. Next you need to get your access credentials from the Security Credential options in the My Account menu in the AWS console.īoth Key ID and Secret Access Key will be required so that you can connect from your server to S3. If you haven’t already got an AWS Amazon account create one, then create a new bucket in S3.Ģ. So without further a do here are the steps we’ve used to create an automated backup of SVN to Amazon S3.ġ. Recently I found this excellent blog post on using Amazon S3 to backup your server, that got me thinking about making a specific version for backing up Subversion on a Windows Server.Ī fully automated backup script that would backup all the repos we have directly to Amazon S3, with a cost of zero to $1 a month why wouldn’t you!!įive Steps to Backing up SVN to Amazon S3