Re: Is my repository too large?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:29:38PM +0000, Dave Oxley wrote:
> Doing a hot-backup.py gives:
> Beginning hot backup of '/var/repos'.
> Youngest revision is 1370
> Backing up repository to '/var/repos-bkup/repos-1370'...
> svn: Can't copy '/var/repos/db/strings' to
> '/var/repos-bkup/repos-1370/db/strings.tmp': File too large
> Unable to backup the repository.
>

The hotcopy routines use apr_file_copy() under the hood, and on
some systems this refuses to work on large files. IMO, this is
an APR issue, since APR doesn't expose O_LARGEFILE support.

--ben

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Received on Mon Feb 23 19:45:43 2004