On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:17:06PM -0400, Myron A. Semack wrote:
> I have an FSFS repository that is backed up nightly with svnadmin hotcopy --incremental. It has just crossed the 80000 revisions mark, and it has never been packed. I would like to run svnadmin pack on this repo.
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> After I run svandmin pack, will the incremental hotcopy still work? Will the hotcopy mirror the packing in the backup copy of the repo? Or do I need to do a full hotcopy after packing the live repo?
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> If I schedule svnadmin pack to happen at regular intervals (e.g. weekly), how should I change my nightly backup strategy?
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> I just want to make sure I do this right so I don't corrupt anything.
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> For reference, this is a Windows server, running SVN 1.8.8, and the repo is at FSFS version 5.
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> Sincerely,
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> Myron A. Semack
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If you don't pack and hotcopy concurrently, it's perfectly safe.
If you pack and hotcopy concurrently, it's almost safe.
There is a known problem with concurrent hotcopy and pack, the fix for which
isn't released yet, I believe. Details here: http://svn.apache.org/r1605633
Received on 2014-08-02 01:58:45 CEST