Re: svnadmin hotcopy failing

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:37, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> While the developers argue about the best way to deal with APR's (lack
> of) largefile support in certain scenarios, here's a workaround.
>
> You can do the 'svnadmin hotcopy' manually in 3 steps. There's nothing
> magical about this command; it's supposed to be just a convenience for
> users. It's doing exactly these 3 things under the hood:
>
> 1. cp -R repos repos-backup
> 2. cp repos/db/log* repos-backup/db/
> 3. svnadmin recover repos-backup
>
> You could even write a shell script to do this.

Just out of curiosity; what is the point of (2)? isn't that implied by
the -R in (1)?

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Scott Lawrence
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Pingtel Corp.   
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