Hello,

I'm playing around with Subversion and focusing on how to back up subversion repositories.

I'm doing this:
and I'm also finding tons of script examples on how to do "backups" but I feel like I'm missing the obvious; the data?

When I review the shell output my command produces, the svnadmin dump looks to me like it is making a backup of the database that exists in a repository. But does this "dump" also capture the binary and text data that has been checked in to a repository?

Or do you have to really do TWO backup processes; one being a directory copy to capture the data, the second being "svnadmin dump blah > blah.dmp" to capture the repository database structure?

Any clarification from someone who administers Subversion would be greatly appreciated!

If you want a copy of the entire repository then I think you should be looking at using the hotcopy command. If, on the other hand you just want a copy of the latest revision of all the files then you would use the export command.