Re: What's the process to svnsync a larger repository

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Geoff Hoffman <ghoffman_at_cardinalpath.com> wrote:
> I'm learning some gotchas with svnsync this week. As per my typical method
> of learning I try 3 wrong ways before finally realizing the right way to do
> most things.
>
> We have about a 1GB svn repo on Ubuntu at -r 3738, and I'm trying to get it
> mirrored on Win 7 running VisualSVN.
>
> I created the mirror repository fine, ran svnsync init and svnsync sync on
> it, then as it started going from -r 1, -r 2, -r 3..., I realized it would
> take a week or more to fetch all nearly 4K commits.

Slow is one thing - but that sounds unreasonable. Is there some
network issue involved? Maybe you can svnsync on a nearby machine,
then copy or move the resulting repo once it is caught up.

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   Les Mikesell
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