On 8/17/06, Magnus Naeslund(k) <mag@kite.se> wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >> When I was dumping and loading a repository (upgrading from 1.2.3 to
> >> 1.3.2) I got this nasty error message:
> >
> > Random side question: why were you dumping/loading? Changing from
> > BDB to FSFS or something?
>
> I always dump/reload to:
> 1) See that dump/reload works
> 2) Let subversion have an opportunity to optimize the repository
Optimize? Not sure what you mean there. If you dump an FSFS
repository and then reload it into a new FSFS repository, I'd expect
the two repositories to be byte-for-byte identical. It's not like
there's some sort of defragmentation going on. :-)
>
> I know that I didn't need to dump/reload for 1.3.x, but i do this as a routine.
> I was lucky I did this, otherwise a restore from the backup would have shown this error = really bad situation.
I'm not sure I understand the reasoning here. You might have
uncovered a bug in the code which creates a dumpfile; I doubt you've
uncovered a deep corruption within the structure of your repository.
Possible, but not as likely.
(Do you use 'svnadmin dump' as a backup? That's awfully slow. You
might just want to copy the repository.)
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Received on Thu Aug 17 18:10:09 2006