On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 7:23 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a backup system set up for our VisualSVN server running on Windows > Server > 2016. It consists of a batch file scheduled to run nightly on the SVN server. > > The batch uses a series of commands, one for each of the backed up > repositories > and has been in place from 2018. > > Now when checking the state of the backup I have found that one single > repository is not up to date on the backup server, so I accesssed the Windows > server to see what was going on. > > Turns out that when I run the backup command manually on the server for this > repository I get the following output: > > > E:\>"C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\bin\svnsync.exe" synchronize > --sync-username syncuser https://backupservername/svn/pcb > https://agiengineering/svn/pcb > Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by > 'AGIENGINEERING:2e8676b6-0783-584c-8276-757df1507352' > ...... 8 repeats of the same ..... > Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by > 'AGIENGINEERING:2e8676b6-0783-584c-8276-757df1507352' > svnsync: E000022: Couldn't get lock on destination repos after 10 attempts > > > Notice: All other repos sync as intended. Only pcb acts up. > > What can I do to remedy this?
You can try running `svnsync` with the `--steal-lock` option: https://www.visualsvn.com/support/svnbook/ref/svnsync/#svn.ref.svnsync.sw.steal_lock > It seems to have stopped working about 3 weeks ago for this single repository. > > Note that the backup server, which is an Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Server box on > another location, is connected using the Internet when doing the backups. > This Ubuntu server has been rebooted a few times since the last working backup > was synced. > > What can cause a failure to obtain a lock on that remote server for this > specific repo? There is already a lock in the repository. Perhaps the Ubuntu server was rebooted in the middle of the sync operation, so the lock wasn't released then. There is a note about svnsync locks in SVNBook: https://www.visualsvn.com/support/svnbook/reposadmin/maint/#Content_Content_Content_ctl12 (see "svnsync Bookkeeping"). > It is only used as a backup for the main SVN server. > > The main Windows server is running svn version 1.9.7 (r1800392) > and the Linux backup server is running svn version 1.13.0 (r1867053) > > Is therte some log on the backup server I can access to see what if anything > is > happening there? > > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin VisualSVN Team
