Well, there is nothing like a simple and easy innovative solutions to save the day -it's been around for quite a while and never really needed it until now ...

Use Case:

we moved Subversion from server A to server B and we wanted to bea ble to utilze the same backup scripts we were using so one (not real elegant way) was to mount the remote location via NFS which has its issues, from time to time you will meet stale NFS records and such so that is almost in all cases out of the question.

A neat solution would be to mount over SSH a specific directory run svnhotbackup and close the share, I took this to another level by utilising this over a VDSL connection which worked like a charm, so how do we do this ?

If you are on Ubuntu (see install snippet below):