Butler, Frances H (FHB) wrote:
> OK, so what is your recommendation at this point? We cannot afford to
> lose
> our data, and it would have been nice to know about some of these
> limitations from the Subversion documentation.
This limitation was solved some time ago.
What version of apr and of subversion are you using?
> Would I be able to do a cold backup?
Of course.
Simply shut down any processes that might try to access the repository, and
make a normal copy of it.
Max.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: quastst@in-euro.de; Butler, Frances H (FHB)
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org; Ogle, Kent D (KOX)
> Subject: Re: Hotcopy backup error
>
>
>> Quoting "Butler, Frances H (FHB)" <butlerfh@y12.doe.gov>:
>>
>>> No, I don't think so, because I've run the command as root previously
>>> with
>>> no problems. I think it's a space issue.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: quastst@in-euro.de [mailto:quastst@in-euro.de]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:27 AM
>>> To: Butler, Frances H (FHB)
>>> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org; Ogle, Kent D (KOX)
>>> Subject: Re: Hotcopy backup error
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe you have permission problem. The repo is belonging to cvn with
>>> group
>>> cvn, but you are acting as root. But only cvn has rw-permissions on all
>>> data. Test if changing permission could help.
>>>
>>> Greets,
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> Quoting "Butler, Frances H (FHB)" <butlerfh@y12.doe.gov>:
>>>
>>>> I have the following transcript of an error I received when running
>>>> the hotcopy backup.
>>>>
>>>> ./hot-backup.py /home/cvn/JuneRepo /mnt/butlerfh3
>>>> Beginning hot backup of '/home/cvn/JuneRepo'.
>>>> Youngest revision is 6187
>>>> Backing up repository to '/mnt/butlerfh3/JuneRepo-6187'...
>>>> svn: Can't copy '/home/cvn/JuneRepo/db/strings' to
>>>> '/mnt/butlerfh3/JuneRepo-6187
>>>> /db/strings.tmp': File too large
>>>> Unable to backup the repository.
>>>> [root@butlerfh1 backup]#
>>>>
>>>> The sizes are as follows:
>>>>
>>>> ls -al
> ...
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 cvn cvn 2160025600 Dec 15 09:13 strings
> ...
>>>>
>>>> So, it would appear that I have a disk space problem, but how much
>>>> space is needed to generate the .tmp file during the hotcopy backup?
>>>>
>>>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> This isn't a disk space problem. The problem is that the strings file has
> grown beyond the 2Gb boundary, beyond which, 64-bit file offset addressing
> is required, and some component (apr, I think) hasn't been compiled with
> this capability.
>
> Max.
>
>
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