I often hear that having an SVN repository doesn't cancel need for backups.  How is such backup done? I mean the repository will inflate over time, won't it? So do I back it up as a whole every time or what do I do?  What's the easiest way to do such backups?
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I'm new to SVN and I'd like to know what methods are available for backing up repositories in a Windows environment?
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We asked our admin to update SVN on our CentOS 6.5 server. He did so and the result was SVN 1.6.11. However the current version of SVN is 1.8.9.   I know the CentOS yum repository is not always up-to-date. But in that case I am confused: SVN 1.6.x is not officially supported anymore. This means it does not get any security fixes!  How can the official CentOS repository provide such an old (and dangerous) version? Is there something we (or our admin) understood the wrong way?
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How does rsync know which files are changed and which are not?  Does it log its data anywhere in the file?  Because I want to do incremental backups, but first it will transfer all files.  So my main question is: if I upload the initial files via FTP but not by rsync. Will rsync still skips those existing files or it will upload everything on the first run.
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On OpenBSD and with OpenBSD's  and , is it possible to store the  of a user in a  repository of the same user?  What would be the proper way to accomplish something like this?  (To steer the answer into the correct direction, I would not be opposed to changing some permissions in the system, although I'd rather not have to recompile the binaries, nor violate any good security paradigms.)
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How would I use tar for full backup and restore with system on SSD and home on HDD?  The existing backup and restore answers don't seem to cover the case where root and home are on separate devices
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I am using the default backup software for Ubuntu 14.04(deja dup). It backs up weekly to a network location.  I'm about to put a new hard drive in my laptop, and I would rather just install ubuntu and put my files in rather than copy over the whole OS and everything. If I reinstall ubuntu and connect to the network backup location, can I restore my backup?
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I have a "docs" folder in a Subversion repository named "project". I've come to the conclusion that it should really be kept under a separate Subversion repository named "project_docs".  I'd like to move the "docs" folder (and all of its revisions) to the "project_docs" repository. Is there a way to do this?
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What is a good and cheap solution for online backup of over 100Gb, probably growing to 200+ in about a year, and then no doubt more after that.  I am looking for something that can work in the background on a mac. I am using Aperture 3. The cost is the limiting factor. I have thought about an external HDD, but I want my data in another place to keep it safe.
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I want to save a backup of my data on a remote server, but never want the backup server to see the data unencrypted. Editing a single file and backing up should not result in everything being encrypted and sent again. The remote server should preferably not even know the directory structure (and especially not the directory names).  Is there such a solution?
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Mountain Lion and later OS X releases have a very useful feature where Time Machine can alternate between multiple backup destinations. I use this to back up to both a network share at home and an external drive I keep offsite. Because I only have physical access to the offsite drive occasionally, I don't back up to it often.  After 10 days, OS X gives me a message around the same time each day, such as:     Time Machine is still backing up successfully to the network share every hour, so this message is unnecessary (and the second sentence is incorrect).  I like being able to see when the last backup was completed, so I'd prefer not to remove the disk from Time Machine's destination list entirely. Likewise, turning Time Machine off (as suggested ) isn't an option because I still need my backups to run on the other drives.  Is there any way to disable or delay this message? Ideally I would be able to set it to a longer period of time, so it could remind me to go do an offsite backup every month or so.
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Is there any way to exclude commands like rm -rf, svn revert from being getting stored in bash history? Actually I, by mistake, have issued them a number of times even though I have no intent to do, just because I am doing things quickly and it happened. Hence results in lost of lots of work I have did so far.
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I have a lot of data on my macbook pro retina laptop and i am looking for the best backup strategy.  I have previously had a windows desktop with an external harddrive connected all of the time and a backup program that copied to the external harddrive incrementally.  I am trying to figure out the best backup strategy given its a laptop that i move around with and travel with alot (so can't really have a external hard drive always connected)  What is the recommended backup solution for map laptops?
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I recently posted an answer where I wrote add the PPA. But I now realize, that I have no idea what the difference between a PPA and a Repository is. So can someone please explain it to me?
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I want to backup my home directory to an external drive nightly using a cron job to execute rsync.  I am unsure of the exact behavior of rsync's symbolic link flags.   rsync's -a flag includes the -l flag (i.e. "copy symlinks as symlinks").  Does this just mean it will copy the link or that it will follow the link and copy everything in the link-to directory?  I want to avoid that because I have links to directories full of media files that would involve copying hundreds of gigabytes I don't need to back up. Fearing (but not certain) that rsync -a would copy all those media files I instead added the --no-links flag.  This does not seem to be behavior I want.  It just ignores copying any link which is problematic because I do have links I want copied (e.g. links to common header files from different project directories). Assuming #1 above (without the --no-links flag) is what I really want and it just copies the link without copying the linked-to files, will the links break when they are backed up?  For example I may rsync source directory /home/me/projects/misc to /media/extdrive/backup/home/me/projects/misc.  In this case I assume rsync is not smart enough nor does it try to correct the contents of symlinks for the relative directory changes.  Is this correct?  This is okay, it doesn't matter if the links are broken in the backup directories so long as they would be fixed and working if such time comes when they need to be restored.
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Is there a way to perform a full text search of a subversion repository, including all the history?  For example, I've written a feature that I used somewhere, but then it wasn't needed, so I svn rm'd the files, but now I need to find it again to use it for something else. The svn log probably says something like "removed unused stuff", and there's loads of checkins like that.  Edit 2016-04-15: Please note that what is asked here by the term "full text search", is to search the actual diffs of the commit history, and not filenames and/or commit messages. I'm pointing this out because the author's phrasing above does not reflect that very well - since in his example he might as well be only looking for a filename and/or commit message. Hence a lot of the svn log answers and comments.
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I want to back-up all files from my laptop partitions to external HDD.  I ran, for example  cp -a /med*/ravb*/*00   /med*/ravb*/M*L*/7.3GB_CP &amp;&amp; echo "7.3GB BACKED UP PROPERLY" || echo "7.3GB FAILED TO BACK UP"   The issue is that dot files are also getting included which I don't want. What should I do so as to ignore all dot files for backing up.
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I use SVN as the source control system, and I wonder how to compare directories while ignoring any metadata differences. Is there a way to tell svn diff to compare only the actual content and ignore any metadata?   I mean metadata like SVN properties, etc. that don't affect the file content. Assume file X has an additional property in branch B compared to trunk T. Unfortunately it will show up in 'svn diff T B' even though the actual content of file X is the same.  I look for something like this:  svn diff https://example.org/tags/v1 https://example.org/tags/v2 -x -ignore-metadata --summarize   Update: I partially solved this by diff'ing directly on the filesystem instead of using the SVN tools. See my own answer below...