Thanks Ryan,
now, I was able to dump the repository and load it on our new hardware.
i´ll will do some test with 1.7 after the successful migration of our
productive system to the new hardware and I´ll keep you updated if
the the problem still occurs with 1.7.
On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:04, Stefan Lock wrote:
>
>> we are using subversion 1.6.11 (r934486) with FSFS database on
>> CentOS and i get the following error while using svnadmin dump:
>>
>> * Dumped revision 8233.
>> svnadmin: File not found: revision 8234, path
>>
>> Some times ago, we committed a file with an bad filename. I think
>> we used a blank or other special characters. Afterwards we deleted
>> this file so we created exactly one revision with this bad file.
>> Now, we are not able to dump this Repository because we get an
>> "file not found!" error for that revision while dumping.
>
> That sounds like a bug in Subversion... if the file could be
> committed, then we should be able to dump or otherwise deal with it,
> even if the name is unusual. I'd recommend you try the latest
> version of Subversion 1.6.x and see if the problem persists. You
> could also try 1.7.0 but you may want to wait on upgrading important
> systems to that version due to other issues you can read about on
> the mailing list.
>
>
>> As I read in the FAQ:
>> http:subversion.apache.org/faq.html#removal
>> It´s planned to delete revisions out of a repository but still not
>> implemented and I have to pipe my dumpfile into the svndumpfilter
>>
>> So I tried:
>> svnadmin dump REPO/ | svndumpfilter exclude revision 8234 >
>> exclude.dump
>> but still get
>>
>> svnadmin: File not found: revision 8234, path.....
>>
>> As i´m not used to the svndumpfilter I tried different syntax (just
>> 8234, the path ) all with the same failure. Unfortunately the man
>> page is not very helpful.
>
> The failure is in svnadmin dump, so the next svndumpfilter command
> isn't even getting run; it's failing before that.
>
>
>> After this I tried:
>>
>> svnadmin dump REPO/ 0:8233 > inkr.dump
>>
>> to append the rest with a incremental dump using >>.
>> But I´m wondering cause get the same failure:
>> ....
>> * Dumped revision 8233.
>> svnadmin: File not found: revision 8234, path '/PATH'
>>
>> Does anybody know how to dump a repository excluding exactly one
>> revision or perhaps anybody has an other idea solving this problem.
>
> You got it mostly right:
>
> $ svnadmin help dump | head -n 1
> dump: usage: svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH [-r LOWER[:UPPER] [--
> incremental]]
>
> You just forgot the "-r" switch before your revision range.
>
> svnadmin dump REPO -r 0:8233 > REPO.dump
> svnadmin dump REPO -r 8234:HEAD --incremental >> REPO.dump
>
> If you don't plan to filter the dump, you can save quite a lot of
> space by using deltas:
>
> svnadmin dump REPO -r 0:8233 --deltas > REPO.dump
> svnadmin dump REPO -r 8234:HEAD --deltas --incremental >> REPO.dump
>
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