Ryan Schmidt wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 16:57:31 -0500: > > On Sep 3, 2010, at 16:51, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > Ryan Schmidt wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 15:29:17 -0500: > > > >> the dump format does not include information > >> about hook scripts, config files or locks. If you dump and load, the new > >> repository will have the default hook script templates (so, no hook > >> scripts), > >> the default configuration, and nothing locked. But I think you can manually > >> bring the relevant files from the old repository to the new one to preserve > >> this data. > > > > For hooks and config files, yes. > > I thought I heard others say you could copy the db/locks directory to > preserve locks, too. Will that not work?
The API does not promise that copying db/locks will work. And if someone tries that anyway? In general, I think the answer to your question is the same as the answer to the general "Can I rsync my repository directory?" question: * under FSFS, the API doesn't allow it but it might work under certain conditions. * under BDB, db/locks is a BDB database, and you probably know better than me when it is/isn't safe to just copy those :-).
