Stephen,
Thanks for the quick reply. I dug around through the file and it does
indeed appear to be interwoven as you suggested. I'm at a loss to
describe how it happened. Obviously one of the scripts I was using to
back up the system did something strange. Any idea on how to salvage
this repository?
Thanks,
Brian
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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