Re: How to restore repositories from backup server

On 2025-01-09 15:20, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM Daniel Sahlberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>> The only solution that will make sure you actually have a working sync is to monitor that the sync script completes without errors. Maybe you could have a script that looks for the svn:sync-lock property (something like svn proplist -v --revprop -r0 http://remote.server.tld/svn/repo) at a time when the sync SHOULD have completed?
> Or perhaps try to run some daily / weekly "verification" script that
> runs "svnlook youngest %PATH_TO_REPO%" or "svnadmin info
> %PATH_TO_REPO%" on both sides and compares the results (or simply
> mails them to you as a first step).


Yes, in addition to firing the post-commit hook add some out-of-band
monitoring. Start with svnlook, and give each revision a timeout to
appear globally. I built this quite a while ago, you can make it pretty
if you want:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYZXCxg9LJablJTQVBlSnhyeHc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-eAzfrm96zroYAwjIWt44zg

Unfortunately the code is lost in time. This was a three site
replication with transparent write-through proxying:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYZXCxg9LJaWVpwRTRqVTdtQWM/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-q13rpE749tkcf3w5eHwL3A


Andreas