> Our Subversion server is RedHat Linux. > > We have lot of repositories which is maintaining in Linux server. Each > repositories taking huge size in our server. > Our Maximum size limit is 100GB, but the size almost reached 98%. We are in > trouble when we are using repository in Tortoise SVN. > > We are getting space constrain issues. For temporary purpose we deleting > unused repositories in Server. > Even though the size in increasing daily basis. > > Can anyone suggest me, how to save space. Is that any good way to keep it SVN > server without space constrain? > Is that any way to compress and reduce the repositories size without any > impact? > > Please advise me with good practice. > Your suggestion is more use to me.
I think the main way to keep repos small is to NOT put binary files in it. Of course, depending on your usage that may not be practical. I think the majority opinion is hard drives are cheap. I know some people here have recommended some binary versioning systems that only maintains a certain number of versions back and delete older ones. I don't recall the names. Someone else can chime in with one or two. You could also implement something like that yourself with a build script. Store your binaries in a folder tree with a "latest" that is a symlink of the most recent version of the binaries. This way your references and such don't need to change for every version. Another option is to store binaries in a separate repository that you can archive and recreate monthly or quarterly, or whatever. Then you can use externals in your projects to reference them. BOb
