Re: Antwort: How big can a repository get?

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Otto <Andreas.Otto_at_versit.de> writes:

 Andreas> Hi, the problem ist not the absolute size.

 Andreas> My repository is ~7G but it is for me unusuable because I
 Andreas> can not dump it. -> no backup possible

 Andreas> The reason is that I create ~5 tags a day using "svn copy
 Andreas> ...." and these tags create every day an additional
 Andreas> dump-size of ~10G even if no files were changed.

That's odd. I can't see why tags should do that; they should produce
just a few bytes of dump data.

For what it's worth, we do backup with "svnadmin hotcopy" and then tar
up the copy. Works great; the reposity is perhaps twice the size you
have.

        paul

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