[darcs-users] darcs counterpart to "svn dump"?

[Robert Feldt]

On 4/6/06, Jonathon Mah <me at jonathonmah.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On 2006-04-06, at 17:36, Robert Feldt wrote:
>
> > I currently use svn. As a backup solution all changes made to all
> > repositories on my central server are dumped to files (one incremental
> > dumpfile for each change to a repo) each night, gpg-encrypted and then
> > copied to other servers. [...] Can someone hint at a
> > good solution for accomplishing a similar thing with darcs repos?
>
> I think you should be able to just tar up _darcs. To restore, you can
> either untar it into a new directory and 'darcs get' it, or run
> 'darcs revert' to regenerate the working files. I'm not completely
> confident about this, though, so it would be best to wait for
> confirmation from others before implementing it.
>
Yeah, that should work I guess. But I want incremental backups and it
seems a bit unnecessary to both tar up the pristine tree and the
patches since the former can be gotten back by applying all the
latter?

Thanks,

Robert