On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jeremy Conlin <jlconlin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am migrating my repository to a new server. This requires that I
>> dump the original and the create a new repository on the new server
>> and use the svnadmin load command to import everything. I have been
>> able to do this for a few of my repositories, but one in particular
>> isn't working. The dump file for this repository is > 9 GB. The load
>> command starts out, but never finishes. The size of my repository
>> gets to 2.1 GB and then it seems to stop even though the svnadmin load
>> command is still running. Eventually (> 24 hours) the command stops
>> (finishes) but the size of my repository is only 2.1 GB when it should
>> be around 9 GB. Also, not all of the files have been restored.
>>
>> Is there a limit in the size of a dump file that can be used? I would
>> be surprised if that limit were around 9 GB. I'm sure there are
>> repositories that are much larger than that.
>>
>> Any ideas on what could be wrong?
>
> Did you direct the svnadmin output to a file that you could tail and
> look for problems?
>
> FWIW, the final size of the repository ought to be significantly
> smaller than the dump file. I'd check for things like the final
> number of revisions. If the command did not throw an error, it
> probably worked.
I did redirect the output to a text file. The command never throws an
error, but never completes either. There should be 24 revisions in
the repository, but when I check out from the new server, there is
only 1, so something isn't working right.
Jeremy
Received on 2010-01-19 21:33:22 CET