RE: Backup a repository

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svn co file://localhost/<REPO FULL PATH> <WC>
 
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svn co <file:///localhost/> file:///localhost/<REPO FULL PATH> <WC>
 
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli@uk.linedata.com]
Sent: 19 April 2007 14:43
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Backup a repository

First of all let me tell you that we are using Subversion 1.3.0 with Apache 2.0.52 (we're using http protocol with Subversion) on a Linux server.

The repository serves three different building machines: a Windows 2003, a AIX 5.3 and a SunOS 5.6 machines.

At the moment we back up the repository simply with a tar and gzip procedure. I did some testing and this way seemed to be the most efficient, not in terms of space and speed.

I am updating some restoring documentation for extreme cases, like a fire or something major, not something that can simply be fix with buying a new disk and dump the repository (or something like that). So, in this scenario we do not require a Subversion server and a building machine, but we put the restored repository on the same building machine. This is of course seen as a temporary measure to be up and running quickly. As a long term solution we, of course, will have a Subversion server, with the specification as above, and everything will be brought back to normal. It's worth mentioning that I didn't write this document and that at the moment of writing I have done little test on the viability of such a solution.

However, I have just tried to "restore" the repository on my PC to simulate that scenario, and then using the svn: and file: protocols (of course I cannot use http as I don't have Apache installed on my PC).

I have started the svnserve as follows (not sure this is correct)

C:\>svnserve -d --listen-port 4444 --listen-host localhost -r c:/data

Then I tried to checkout a working copy as follows

C:\>svn co svn://localhost:4444/<REPO NAME> <WC>

'vn: Unknown FS type 'fsfs

C:\>svn co file://localhost/<REPO FULL PATH> <WC>

svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

svn: Unable to open repository 'file://localhost/<REPO FULL PATH>'

'vn: Unknown FS type 'fsfs

Did I do something wrong? Or is it that for some Unix/Windows incompatibility I can't simply untar a Unix repository on a Windows machine? Is it maybe that I had to untar it with some special option (I simply used WinZip)?

I know that a solution would be to dump the repository, tar and zip it, and back it up, so I can load into the new repository on Windows without problems (I think), but I am trying first to work with what I've got, if you know what I mean.

Thanks

Giulio

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Received on Thu Apr 19 16:43:06 2007