Hello Jake!
> The repository on my server is growing much faster than expected.
>
> The culprit is in db/txn-protodevs underneath the subversion repository. It's
> grown to
> 98GB!
Hmmm, a quick JFGI didn't find any relevant information.
> With every revision (on a daily backup), there's a file created there that is
> exactly
> 1GB even though the backup fails!!!:
Why does the backup fail?
> -rw-r--r-- 1 svnbackup svnbackup 1048576000 2010-01-14 08:00 68-4g.rev
> -rw-r--r-- 1 svnbackup svnbackup 0 2010-01-14 07:38 68-4g.rev-lock
>
> The earliest of these files goes back to 2009-10-14
>
> On the machine which is being backed up:
>
> #fsvs log
> r68 | svnbackup | 2009-10-13T06:35:54.093739Z | 1 line
>
> Daily backup
>
> So it looks like I dumped 20 GB of photos onto the server, and forgot to add
> an
> exception to the ignore list.
And that is why the backup fails? Because there's no space left? Or is that a
separate
point?
> I don't understand why these files would be created and kept on a failed
> transaction. Is
> this a bug in subversion?
Perhaps; but maybe FSVS would have to call some SVN api to cleanup those.
Do you access the repository via file://?
Regards,
Phil
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