On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Joe Mele <
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> Hi all
>
>
> I have an eMac PPC that I am using as a svn repository. I setup time
> machine. Now this repository is set up at
> /usr/local/svn
>
> How do I access the archived copies from time machine???
A subversion repository may or may not be OK if you just back up the
files. It depends on whether it's being accessed at the moment and
possibly on which repository fs type you are using (the Berkeley DB
"fs" or the normal filesystem "fs".) There is a script called
something like svnhotcopy for backing up a Berkeley DB repository.
Not sure if you need to do that for an fsfs repository.
So your backups should probably be done with a periodic svnhotcopy or
svnadmin dump to a separate location and then have time machine back
that up. The Subversion book probably has a section on backups. I
haven't looked at it in a while. (
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/)
Since you obviously haven't done that yet, you can probably get time
machine to give you a working subversion repository anyway, since it's
unlikely that the repository would have been accessed every time time
machine backed it up.
You would need to go into time machine, select all the
files/directories in the subversion repository and then tell it to
restore them. You should restore to a different location so as not to
overwrite the current copy of your repository (even if it is damaged,
it's probably better not to overwrite the current copy, just in case.)
It's actually not clear to me exactly when Time machine asks if you
want to change the location of the restored copy. It sometimes asks
if you want to keep the original or both copies, so it might be better
to rename /usr/local/svn temporarily just before you do the restore.
Then point your subversion client at the recovered repository and see
if it works. If not, try a different version of it.
--
Michael Wood <
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