Possibly. I just interpreted it as a usage failure, but if folks want
to talk about improvements here, that's fine by me.
-Hyrum
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> hot-backup.py is in our trunk/tools/, and requests to extend it may be dev
> topics (e.g., if they come with patches). So I don't think it's off-topic?
>
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 at 14:30 -0000:
>> Since this question is about how to use Subversion, not how to
>> progress the development of the core project, you should at it on the
>> us...@subversion.apache.org mailing list. (Plus, it appears you are
>> using VisualSVN, have you tried their support channels?)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Hyrum
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Donald Gordon <donald.gor...@xero.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > When I create a backup of a rather large repo (output ZIP over 2GB),
>> > hot-backup blows up with this error message:
>> >
>> > Archiving backup to 'd:\SubVersion\Backups\bin\bin-14671.zip'...
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > File "C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualSVN Server\bin\hot-backup.py", line
>> > 319, in
>> > <module>
>> > os.path.walk(backup_subdir, add_to_zip, (zp, backup_dir))
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\ntpath.py", line 262, in walk
>> > walk(name, func, arg)
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\ntpath.py", line 262, in walk
>> > walk(name, func, arg)
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\ntpath.py", line 262, in walk
>> > walk(name, func, arg)
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\ntpath.py", line 258, in walk
>> > func(arg, top, names)
>> > File "C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualSVN Server\bin\hot-backup.py", line
>> > 314, in
>> > add_to_zip
>> > zp.write(path, path[len(root):])
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\zipfile.py", line 1024, in write
>> > self._writecheck(zinfo)
>> > File "C:\Python26\lib\zipfile.py", line 992, in _writecheck
>> > raise LargeZipFile("Zipfile size would require ZIP64 extensions")
>> > zipfile.LargeZipFile: Zipfile size would require ZIP64 extensions
>> >
>> > I can make it work by passing an extra parameter to the ZipFile
>> > constructor to enable ZIP64 mode -- is turning on ZIP64 something that
>> > could be made an option in hot-backup? Google turns up a few scattered
>> > reports of this problem, so I can't be the only one trying to zip up large
>> > repository backups.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > donald
>> >
>> >
>> > Donald Gordon
>> > Operations Developer, Xero
>> >
>> > donald.gor...@xero.com | Telephone +64 4 819 4872 | Fax +64 4 819 4801
>> >
>> > Level 1, Old Bank, 98 Customhouse Quay, PO Box 24 537,
>> > 6142, New Zealand
>> >
>> > http://www.xero.com/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
