Re: SVN Mirroring problems

hi, i have seen avaya use wandisco to do this with india and it looks like it
worked pretty well. good luck

ohaleck wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I need to set up a mirror of SVN repository. There are several
> developers in our office in Poland while the main division is in USA
> (and they don't really understand that our connection is very poor
> quality) so we decided to mirror the remote SVN located on the US
> server, which we normally accessed via svn+ssh://.
> The simplest solution seems to be SVN::Mirror. I have set it up (version
> 0.67 downloaded from CPAN) and run it the following way:
>
> $ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /repository
> $ export SVMREPOS=/repository
> $ svm init mirror svn+ssh://user@remote.svn.host/remote_repository
> (public key authentication)
> $ svm sync mirror
>
> Here is where the first problem appears. When something breaks the
> connection (and as I said the link is very poor quality) and I try to
> resume it svm keeps displaying:
> Waiting for sync lock on /mirror: host:1629.
> How can I disable the lock? Deleting anything in repository/locks
> results in breaking the repository down and I cannot do anything with it
> anyway.
>
> If everything runs fine I have a repository mirror at
> file://$SVMREPOS/mirror. I create a local branch:
> $ svn cp file://$SVMREPOS/mirror file://$SVMREPOS/svn-local
> Then I can check out and do some changes to the code. Then I commit it
> and get the following message:
> Sending (files)
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 8.
>
> Now there is another problem. The svm POD says I should perform a svm
> mergeback command. What are the parameters though? I figured out that
> first parameter should be the path (here: 'mirror'), second should be
> 'svn-local', but how about the required third one? A revision? Revision
> of what? I tried different values but each of them gets me an error
> message (different types though):
>
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 7
> Invalid filesystem path syntax: Invalid editor anchoring; at least one
> of the input paths is not a directory and there was no source entry at
> /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
>
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 8
> committed via RA at /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 409.
>
> $ svm mergeback mirror svn-local 8 (one more time)
> A checksum mismatch occurred: Base checksum mismatch on
> 'src/scripts/ELFA/ELFA.pl':
> expected: 06499a874fc782217f1370edcd4d1ea4
> actual: 647035bd17fe330d4c474961525dfde9
> at /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
>
> SVN::Delta::Editor::AUTOLOAD('SVN::Delta::Editor=HASH(0x85a2db8)',
> '_p_void=SCALAR(0x85a2fd4)', '06499a874 fc782217f1370edcd4d1ea4',
> '_p_apr_pool_t=SCALAR(0x85a2ea8)') called at
> /usr/share/perl5/SVN/Mirror.pm line 413
> SVN::Mirror::mergeback('SVN::Mirror::Ra=HASH(0x855afac)', 7,
> 'svn-local', 8) called at /usr/bin/svm line 1 15
> main::mergeback('mirror', 'svn-local', 8) called at /usr/bin/svm
> line 124
>
> After all this the actual revision on local (mirror) repository is 8 and
> on remote repository is 6 so nothing was merged back.
>
> I would appreciate any help as this mirroring drives me nuts and all of
> us here really need the mirror to work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Maciek Ochalek
>
>
>
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