That's not always a valid assumption. A plain copy of FSFS is
generally safER than doing the same w/ BDB, but it's not necessarily
100% safe.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 21:10, Ameet Nanda <ameet.nanda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a FSFS repo, so I assumed it would be safe.
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt
> <subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2010, at 17:34, Ameet Nanda wrote:
>>
>> > Additionally, I had checked out a few files from the repository on an
>> > old machine, and then I moved the repository to a new server. I didnot do a
>> > dump and move, just did a tar and scp and untar of the entire repository.
>> > When I try to check in to the new server [with the same hostname] it says
>> >
>> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>> > svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in
>> > response to MKACTIVITY request for '/repos/papers/!svn/act/
>> > a49a699c-96a7-11df-9e8f-654930a0ec4e'
>>
>> That's not the proper procedure for moving a repository, so it's not
>> unexpected that you might run into problems. Does "svnadmin verify" have
>> anything interesting to say about the repository? Is it a BDB or FSFS
>> repository?
>>
>>
>
>
Received on 2010-07-24 04:03:35 CEST