Question

I have been using Doug Hellmann’s script to back up my repo for 2 years now, and I eventually lost my server hard drive. So I created a brand new repo on another machine, and attempted the restore command, which is:

gunzip -c `ls -tr dump*` | svnadmin load /home/svn/myproject

Only it doesn’t work. It gives the response

<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 917
svnadmin: File not found: transaction '0-1', path 'MineSweeper2/src/com/bytezone/minesweeper2/Game.java'
     * editing path : MineSweeper2/src/com/bytezone/minesweeper2/Game.java ...denis@ubuntu-lianli:~/SVN backups$

Can anyone explain what is wrong here? I have all the incremental backups ever made, surely this is the simplest case scenario.

Incidentally, is it possible to condense the dozen or so backup files into a single file before attempting the load?

Answer 1

It seems the backups are not being processed in the right order. svnadmin load reproduces the commits made in the repository to obtain a new copy. It seems is looking to commit a file modification but the file is not created yet because the commits are not in the proper order.