Format file misbehavior

[Robert Staflin <ro...@staflin.com>]

When backing up with svnadmin hotcopy, I get the message "svnadmin:  
Can't open the file "File-path\format": The search path cannot be found"

The file is there, and have the exact same contents ("5") as a  
repository that works fine on the same machine... Can I delete the  
misbehaving file and make my own format file? ...or is there an  
obvious explanation for this? Why can't the file be found, when it's  
there?

If I dump the repository with svnadmin I can't import it afterwards  
(it can't find the format file again)...

Thanks for any input.

/Robert Staflin

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Re: Format file misbehavior

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 09:42, Robert Staflin wrote:

> When backing up with svnadmin hotcopy, I get the message "svnadmin:  
> Can't open the file "File-path\format": The search path cannot be  
> found"
>
> The file is there, and have the exact same contents ("5") as a  
> repository that works fine on the same machine... Can I delete the  
> misbehaving file and make my own format file? ...or is there an  
> obvious explanation for this? Why can't the file be found, when  
> it's there?

I don't know, and I would have suggested you dump and reload, but:

> If I dump the repository with svnadmin I can't import it afterwards  
> (it can't find the format file again)...

You can dump the repo, but not reload it into a new empty repository?  
That's odd. Or are you saying you dump the repo, then try to load it  
back into the same (non-empty) repo? If so, then that's not how you  
would usually use the load command... You should:

svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > /tmp/repo.dump
mv /path/to/repo /path/to/repo-old
svnadmin create /path/to/repo
svnadmin load /path/to/repo < /tmp/repo.dump
rm /tmp/repo.dump

Um... the above would be the commands for a Unix-like OS and I see  
now you're on Windows, so you'll have to adapt that to the usual  
Windows shell commands, and pick the correct tmp directory, and so  
forth.


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