Guys,
Thank you to all of you for your answers. I realised I wasn't clear in
my questions.
I am not looking for a different method to back up my repository. I know
that what we are doing at the moment is not what we should do, but I
cannot do anything about it right now. Maybe, if I can "prove" that
something is wrong they will agree to change the process.
If you guys could tell me that I cannot simply tar a repository on a
Linux server and untar it on a Windows machine and expecting it to work
because of this and that, that I can go to the Big Guy and say, look we
can't do it this way, let's use the dump/load.
Now, to Scott, sorry but the syntax is either file://localhost/<path>
(two /) or file:///<path> (three /) and the latter will assume a
localhost as per
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.basic.in-action.html#svn.adva
nced.reposurls.
Thanks
Giulio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnathan Gifford [mailto:jgifford@wernervas.com]
> Sent: 19 April 2007 15:39
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Backup a repository
>
> Giulio,
>
> First of all, look at this section of the SVN Book:
>
> http://svnbook.red-
>
bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.backu
p
>
>
> Now there is all a shell script that I think is the tool your looking
for:
>
> http://svnbook.red-
>
bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.backu
p
>
> This only works for FSFS repositories. If you have a BDB repository,
you
> will have to do the svnadmin hotbackup that is mentioned in the first
> link.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Johnathan
>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 8:42 AM, in message
> <118E567D84D51F4784D44F29A8AB470D3ECC14@ln1exc02.ad.ldsam.com>,
"Giulio
> Troccoli" <Giulio.Troccoli@uk.linedata.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
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