Re: Repository size and dump size

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, ikami <ikamig_at_yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a repository with 1.3G size. To see this I execute the command "du
> -hs /path/to/my/repository".
> I'm making the backup with the command "svnadmin dump". The problem is that
> the output of the command is a dump file with 2.1G.
> Why is it happen?

Your repository stores each revision as a difference against the
previous revision (in most cases, anyway; the skip-delta algorithm
will sometimes make a revision a "full" copy). The dumpfile contains a
full copy of each file at each revision.

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Received on 2008-02-28 15:41:14 CET