| 39 | Performing Full Weekly Backups |
The Subversion administrative dump and load commands are an excellent base upon which to build backup scripts for your repository. Depending on how large your repository is and the frequency with which you want to run backups, you might not always want to wait for a full backup to complete. This script and the script in the next task form a basic full and incremental backup regimen for your repository.
Most users will be comfortable running a full backup once a week and an incremental backup every day. If you are more paranoid, you could run the full backup every night and the incremental backup every hour. Some administrators even use a post-commit hook script to run an incremental backup after every check-in, ...
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