You could just zip the WC up, and then split the zip file into parts big
enough to fit on your USB stick... it would take more than one trip, but
you'd get there eventually (hopefully in 2 trips only too)
-Stephen
2009/4/16 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
> Tony Sweeney wrote:
> >>
> >> I have an export of my repository which I wish to make into a
> >> working copy.
> >>
> >> Here's my situation:
> >> I use Subversion to manage my music library. I have a
> >> working copy at home and at work, and sometimes check out
> >> portions in other places. I recently deleted my working copy
> >> at work and need to restore it. The server is hosted at
> >> home, so when I check out at work, I'm depending on my upload
> >> bandwidth at home, which is minimal. An export of the
> >> library is 10GB, but a working copy is 21GB. I can bring an
> >> export to work on my 16GB USB Flash drive, but the flash
> >> drive is too small for a working copy. That's why I want to
> >> put an export on my flash drive (at home), take it to work,
> >> and then convert the export to a working copy.
> >>
> >> This hasn't been an issue in the past because each update at
> >> work was only a handful of files, since I was adding music to
> >> the repository one album at a time. Now that I have to check
> >> out the entire library, it becomes a much more
> >> bandwidth-hungry operation. I have seen some tutorials on
> >> how to make an export from a working copy, but not the other
> >> way around. I would make no changes to the export.
> >>
> >> I realize there are other ways to do this:
> >> 1. Use the flash drive to copy half of the working copy one
> >> day and the other half the next day 2. Run a series of
> >> checkout/interrupt iterations at work.
> >> I'm wondering if there's a tool in Subversion to do the work for me.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any natively supported way. Probably the easiest
> > solution is simply to buy a bigger USB stick or a portable USB hard
> > drive. A 32 GB USB stick will run you $60-70 from Newegg; a 160GB
> > external USB hard drive will run you $55-70 from the same source. Note
> > that there is quite a difference in speed between flash drives, so you
> > may want to do some research before you fork over your cash.
>
> You can get laptop-sized USB-powered external drives all the way up to
> 500Gb these days so portability isn't a huge problem. The quick-fix
> here might be to simply zip or tar -z the working copy if that will make
> it fit, though.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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