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Re: Fear of upgrade

From: Mark Plotnick <plotnick_at_ensodex.com>
Date: 2002-10-08 19:58:53 CEST

** Reply to message from Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> on 03 Oct
2002 11:22:36 -0500

I turned off apache and then ran 'svnadmin' with
root privilege and it (svnadmin dump) now works.

:-) Thanks for the advice.

I don't understand why I have to be root to run svnadmin,
but if I'm not it wedges the DB and fails in different places.

For example, when I ran 'svnadmin dump' as my own uid,
it made it through to REV 102 of 425 (youngest REV).

Does it make sense to use the 'dump' output as a more
reliable backup format than 'hot-backup' since you can
always 'load' it into the latest version of svn ?

/Mark

> Mark Plotnick <plotnick@ensodex.com> writes:
>
> > Would this make sense even if I created the repository with
> > the same svn version that I am currently using ?
>
> Not at all. Either svnadmin is able to open the repository, or it
> isn't. There is no try.
>
> 1. Does something as simple as 'svnadmin youngest /path/to/repos'
> hang? Does it cause a wedge?
>
> 2. What does 'ldd svnadmin' say? What does 'ldd svn' say?
>
> 3. I assume you have no problems accessing the repository via
> ra_local? As in, 'svn ls file:///path/to/repos'?
>
> 4. What happens if you do this?
>
> $ svnadmin create newrepos
> $ svnadmin youngest newrepos
> $ svnadmin dump newrepos > dump.txt

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