Re: Restoring incremental backups with revisions missing

Rachael Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if it's OK to build a repository from a number of
> incremental dumps, with revisions missing?

The answer is no.

Revision numbers will no longer be in a single sequence, which will make
copyfrom revisions incorrect. (and in the case of a
copy-without-modification, can actually mean you are copying the wrong
revision, ending up with erroneous content in the destination of your copy).
Also, if the "add" of a file is missing, subsequent "change" operations
cannot load.

> On trying to dump out my broken repository, there are a few revisions that
> throw errors (snv: no copy with id 'x' in filesystem... ), so i've just
> skipped those and created another dump starting from the revision after
> the broken one (as the repository is all corrupted, doing a verify just
> returns my nice Berkeley DB errors....!)

I sort of dropped out of this conversation for a while (sorry, university
life can be busy).
Did it ever get resolved?

Max.

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Received on Mon May 9 17:38:50 2005