backing up my repositories, anything special needed?

[Ben Hood]

> > i create daily backups of my important files (well, not yet, but working
> > on it :), which include also my mercurial repositories...
> >
> > is it enough to simply backup the directory which contains the repositories?

What strikes me generally is that versioning data and not losing data
should be separate concerns, IMHO. What I find is that people tend to
be using the SCM as a backup and so therefore commit incomplete
changes to the repo for the sake of resilience. I find this annoying
when I have to backtrack through items of work that are strewn accross
many changesets. I was wondering if their was any scope to introduce a
snapshotting extension that could can sent to a remote repo with
creating a changeset, for the sake of resilience?

Alternatively, you just use conventional backup strategies to backup
your workspace.

Ben