On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 8, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Sandeep Kamath wrote: > >> We have got 30+ projects in our windows 2008 server and every day we are >> taking the backup of it. We are using "svn export" command to do so using >> python script. >> "Svn export" is failing for some projects forcing the apache to restart. Out >> of 30 projects, one or the other will have incomplete data due to this issue. >> >> Note that project which is failing is not the same always. >> >> Server: Windows 2008 >> apache 2.2 >> subversion 1.6.12 > > Could you show us the exact error message you get? > > Note that "svn export" is *not* a backup method. It only gets you a copy of > the latest version of the code, but not any of the history. To back up the > history, use "svnadmin dump" or "svnadmin hotcopy" or "svnsync".
Also, please try a newer version of Subversion. The latest version of Subversion 1.6 is 1.6.23, however Subversion versions earlier than 1.7 are no longer supported, so consider upgrading to 1.7.20 or 1.8.13. http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8#svn-1.6-deprecation
