Easily configurable to fit your needs

VisualSVN Server Manager console provides an intuitive user interface to setup and manage the scheduled backup jobs. The setup process is very simple and should usually take no longer than 5 minutes to complete. You can add multiple backup jobs and configure them to have different schedules, backup destinations and sets of repositories to backup. This kind of flexibility should help you setup the backup that meets the corporate policies and requirements of your organization.

Time and space efficient

VisualSVN Server Backup and Restore feature was specifically designed for Subversion repositories and enables highly effective hot backup capabilities. It only takes about 40 seconds and around 5 MB on disk to make a daily incremental backup of the official Apache Software Foundation repository. It is worth noting that this is a large monolithic repository that holds 200 separate projects and contains more than 1,700,000 revisions.

Hot backup without service interruptions

Backup jobs can run when the repositories are being actively used, and do not have a noticeable impact on the performance. The running jobs do not cause any interruptions for users.

Scheduled and on-demand data protection

VisualSVN Server Backup and Restore, in conjunction with regular repository verification, provides a reliable data protection from human errors and software or hardware failures.

Before executing a potentially dangerous operation, you can always take one-time full backup of the repository or manually start a backup job out of schedule. The latter option helps you make a backup in just a couple of minutes.

Backup encryption

Encryption allows you to protect the backups and guarantees that only authorized users can decrypt and access the data. VisualSVN Server uses strong AES-128 or AES-256 backup encryption algorithms. The encryption prevents unauthorized access to the data. Read the article KB132: Understanding backup encryption for more information.

Backup to Azure Files cloud storage

VisualSVN Server allows you to store the repository backups on the Azure Files cloud storage. Azure Files is a secure and highly-available cloud file share accessible via the SMB 3.0 protocol. Azure Files cloud storage can be used with one-time repository backups and with scheduled backup jobs.

What’s a good and simple way to backup an SVN repo to an FTP server?

I’d like to make a backup of my SVN repo using tar and ftp from a cronjob once a day. This is quite easy, but I would like to make sure there’s no commit etc. running while the backup is made. While there are times of the day / night where this is highly unlikely, but I’d rather not rely on that, because if I’m already up at night in some crunch, the last thing I need is my SVN or my backups getting messed up.

I’m looking for some very simple but effective safeguard. It’s OK if SVN clients get an error while the backup is running (it won’t take that long). Should I use

• something on the filesystem level
• some SVN hook script
• something else entirely

I started posting this over at serverfault, but then decided that it is slightly closer to programming than to sysadmin, especially if hooks are involved. Feel free to move it if you think otherwise.