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Re: file already exists error during svnadmin load

From: Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:24:01 +0100

Looks like the first 4 lines are duplicated

2009/5/4 Brian Larkin <blarkin_at_gmail.com>

> I'm having a problem restoring a subversion repository that was
> created via the svndump command. The dump file was created on a
> debian etch (v4) system that had subversion installed via the debian
> package. I believe this is v1.4.2 of subversion. The dump file was
> created using the following command:
>
> svnadmin dump /svn >> /tmp/svn.dump
>
> It was then gzipped and archived. The file is roughly 2GB in size.
> The server this repository exists on no longer exists.
>
> I am trying to load the the file on an ubuntu system v8.10 that has
> subversion installed via the ubuntu package. 8.1 uses subversion
> v1.5.1 I believe. I am trying to load the dump file using the
> following steps
>
> 1. svnadmin create /svn
> 2. svnadmin load /svn < /tmp/svn.dump
>
> Whenever I execute the load command, I receive the following messages:
>
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
>
> ------- Committed revision 1 >>>
>
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
> * adding path : test ... done.
> svnadmin: File already exists: filesystem 'svn/db', transaction '1-1',
> path 'test'
> * adding path : test ...
>
>
> Then it bombs out on me. I dug around the mailing list archives and
> the only ticket I could find that seemed similar was this one:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=857079
>
> So, I tried checking out from the repo, creating a 'test' directory,
> committing it and then using the --parent-dir argument for svnadmin
> load but I receive the same error. I thought that it might be possible
> that the dump was corrupt or something, but the plaintext areas are
> fine from what I can see. The first few lines of the dump are as
> follows:
>
>
> SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 2
>
> UUID: d010f6ce-b37d-4982-8ef8-f6e113d283eb
>
> SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 2
>
> UUID: d010f6ce-b37d-4982-8ef8-f6e113d283eb
>
> Revision-number: 0
> Prop-content-length: 56
> Content-length: 56
>
> K 8
> svn:date
> V 27
> 2007-11-30T19:40:28.836355Z
> PROPS-END
>
> <<snip>>
>
> Can anyone help me out on getting this repository loaded or recovered
> in some way?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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