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.na...@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-20...@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? >> >> > >
