Hi Nahtan, Thanks for the reply. I get the following error when I execute svnadmin command.
svnadmin: Can't open file '/home/svnrepos/vss/format': Not a directory As second try I did svnadmin load /home/svnrepos/ Then it got into infinite loop until I hit carriage return (Enter key) then I got the following error message svnadmin: Malformed dumpfile header I both the cases I did not get any messae like "<<< Starting new transaction..." Regards Aravinda On 1/22/08, Nathan Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > aravinda sh wrote: > > I used vss2svn.exe to convert VSS repository to SVN. I got _vss2svn > > directory and a vss2svn-dumpfile.dat. > > If you're working on Ubuntu anyway, I'd suggest running the whole > conversion there for future. I just finished a 4gb 28K revision > conversion with 300K files. Running the .exe version on XP resulted in > a dump file with massive corruption (it looked like internal io buffer > corruption). Running on linux took 40 mins instead of 3 hours, and > actually worked. :) > > > After this I used following command to load dump file into newly > > created repository. > > > > svnadmin load /home/svnrepos/ < vss2svn-dumpfile.dat > > > > When I executed this command, I did not find any message on the > > command line. Then I tied svnlook command to see if there is any data > > I could not find. > > > > Am I missing anything here or do I need to follow any other steps > > before this. > > > > I am working on ubuntu server, please help me out. > > This should work. Are you sure your dump file has the correct content? > Immediately svnadmin should print like "<<< Starting new transaction..." > > If you need to examine your dump file there's a really excellent tool to > examine/manage svn dump files: svndumptool > http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/ > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user > >
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