Re: Hotbackup fails on large file (>2Gb)

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 08:59, Natalya Pyalling wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I try to do hotbackup of Subversion repository.
> [svn@vcs backup]$ svnadmin hotcopy /var/Repository/repos1 ~svn/repos1
> svn: Can't copy '/var/Repository/repos1/db/strings' to
> '/home/svn/repos1/db/strings.tmp': File too large [svn@vcs backup]$
>
> The reason is large file.
> [svn@vcs backup]$ ls -l /var/Repository/repos1/db/strings
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 svn svn 2228891648 Apr 5 17:37
> /var/Repository/repos1/db/strings
>
> There is some information about system:
> 1. Subversion version - 1.0.1.
> 2. Kernel is 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux 3. Glibc - 2.3.2 release 101.4
>
> What can I do with this? Is there any patch to fix it?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Natalya Pyalling.

I've got the very same problem... our workaround is to cpio the complete
repository directory. It's ugly, people will tell you it's a no-no, but it
works for us.

-- 
Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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