Backing up Subversion with DreamHost
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DreamHost have been offering Subversion repositories with their hosting packages for the last couple of months, and if you're a developer, a central repository can be a useful thing to have.
Although DreamHost have a simple form for setting up a new repository and they make regular backups incase a hard drive fails, I still have a lingering fear of losing all of my source code. Luckily, DreamHost also offer SSH access and allow you to setup cron jobs to backup your data yourself. This guide provides instructions for creating a shell script to backup, compress, email and restore your SVN repository.
The tools you'll need to export a repository are svnadmin, tar, split, mutt – an email client, and optionally crontab.
