Re: [Subversion Wiki] Update of "CopySvnsyncMirrorToMaster" by JulianFoad

Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> writes:

> Apache Wiki wrote on Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 16:49:37 -0000:
>> + Copy, by any convenient method (such as rsync or by physically shipping a disk), the following parts of the mirror repository into the master repository:
>> +
>> + * the 'db' subdirectory
>
> It doesn't make any sense to copy the entire db/ directory. Instead of
> that the advice should be to dump or svnsync-from the known-good source.

The slave is the best known-good source.

This is an issue 3845 repository. We haven't identified how many rev
files are corrupt through truncation. If we do fix a corrupt rev file
with information from the slave then offsets within the rev file change
and subsequent rev files that refer to the old offsets become corrupt.

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