Re: Upgrading to 1.3.2: "svnadmin: File already exists"

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> 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. :-)
>

Well one example would if subversion would change delta algoritm.
But this part of the discussion is not important.

>> 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.
>

Well I'm not sure, but I like to verify that dump/restore works when I upgrade to another svn version.
Maybe you see that as silly, but I'm glad I tried it, as I found an actual problem (whatever reason for it).

> (Do you use 'svnadmin dump' as a backup? That's awfully slow. You
> might just want to copy the repository.)

Yes I use that format because I thought it was the most flexible format.
This might not be optimal as our repository grows, but I'll examine that later.

Regards,
Magnus

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Received on Wed Aug 23 17:25:44 2006