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Glen Starrett wrote: >> I just got wondering -- do you guys have experiences with or thoughts >> about backing up a repository without shutting down the service? >> >> For example, there is the shadow copy service of WinXP/2003, and there >> are imaging applications like Ghost and TrueImage that can image live >> file systems. Does this work? > > AFAIK the only risk to backing up a live repository is that you might > happen to catch it in the middle of an update, in which case you'd have > half the files in one state and the other half in the previous state. I am willing to accept this and consider such a state a "consistent" state in the sense that the repository would work and no data would be lost. Sometimes a (logical) change set doesn't get committed in one commit command anyway, and therefore even shutting down the server wouldn't guarantee the (logical) change set to be complete. Thanks, Gerhard