Re: Repository size and dump size

On Thursday 28 February 2008, ikami 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?

Because "svnadmin dump" dumps the repository in a portable uncompressed
format. And you really want this as a backup :-)
        Marc

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