backing up my repositories, anything special needed?

[Gábor Farkas]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:28:07PM +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> for example, what happens if someone is pushing to a repository at the
>> same time when it's backed up?
>>
>> will that be ok?
> 
> There is a potential race here, but it's not serious.

what is the worst that can happen?

gabor