On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:32:32PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> e.huelsmann@gmx.net wrote:
> >ehh, Ben, the faq item first describes the pre 0.24.2 situation and then
> >the
> >current one. Maybe that should be reversed to avoid problems and questions?
>
> How about this?
Julian, can you commit this or do you want me to file a patch issue for it?
Sander
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> Index: www/project_faq.html
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> --- www/project_faq.html (revision 6929)
> +++ www/project_faq.html (working copy)
> @@ -635,30 +635,29 @@
> repository from the day it was born. But in practice, if you're
> making backups, it's probably not worth the cost in disk space.</p>
>
> -<p>Run the <code>db_archive</code> command in the db/ area to see
> +<p>Use <code>svnadmin</code> to see
> which log files can be deleted. You may want a cron job to do this.</p>
>
> <pre>
> -$ db_archive -a -h /repos/db
> +$ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /repos
> /repos/db/log.000003
> /repos/db/log.000004
> [...]
>
> -$ db_archive -a -h /repos/db | xargs rm
> +$ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /repos | xargs rm
> # disk space reclaimed!
> </pre>
>
> -<p>Or, if you are running a Subversion release <em>later</em> than
> -0.24.2, then there's no need to locate the correct
> -<code>db_archive</code> command or set of arguments. Just use
> -<code>svnadmin</code>:</p>
> +<p>You could instead use Berkeley DB's <code>db_archive</code> command:</p>
>
> <pre>
> -$ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /repos | xargs rm
> +$ db_archive -a -h /repos/db | xargs rm
> # disk space reclaimed!
> </pre>
>
> +<p>See also <code>svnadmin copy</code> or <code>hotbackup.py</code>.</p>
>
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> >>Steven Op de beeck <annika@ulyssis.org> writes:
> >>>Why did my repo got so huge?
> >>
> >>Read the FAQ about this:
> >>
> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#bdblogs
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Received on Tue Sep 9 15:00:46 2003