Hi all,
I'm currently re-working a backup script to use svnsync instead of hotcopy due
to the amount of time the latter is taking.
My svn server is Debian etch running svn 1.6.11 (from source), which mounts a
Windows Server 2003 share using the CIFS driver (v. 1.45). I've been
successfully running hotcopies over the same share for some time.
The script will try to create and initialise a destination if one doesn't
already exist. This part seems to break on the command:
svnadmin create /mnt/svnbackup/repo
I've tried it manually and every time it pauses for about 10 seconds before
returning:
svnadmin: database is locked
...after which it has created the following files:
repo
repo/db
repo/locks
repo/locks/db-logs.lock
repo/locks/db.lock
repo/README.txt
I can work around this by creating/initialising it locally and moving it into
place, but this is less than ideal. Does 'svnadmin create' do anything
interesting or expect some kind of behaviour from the filesystem it's writing
to?
Cheers,
Terry.
