Den ons 8 jan. 2025 kl 10:59 skrev Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com>:
> If I create a new empty target repository on the mirror server and > configure it > to be used for syncing, then how long will it take to do the initial sync? > > The problem is that it is VERY big (14 GB) and the server and mirror are > separated by the Atlantic so all comm need to be going through the internet > etc... > That's not "very big" with today's measures (at least unless you are paying per GB transfered). I have successfully synced TortoiseSVN's repo - it is "only" 1.4 GB but on the other hand has almost 30'000 (small) revisions. It took the better part of a day, but that is because the sync does one revision at a time. Since you have fewer but bigger revisions, I would suspect it to take a lot less time. It sounds like a good plan to make a new repository and re-initialize the sync. You probably put yourself in this situation by trying to load a dump on the backup server. Maybe if you look at the properties on -r0 (as described in the SVN book), you can make Subversion "think" that both repositories are equal (which they SHOULD be if you made everything correct). > > Is it not possible to load a synced repo using an initial dump file from > the > source and so load the mirror locally without having to worry about > connectivity > issues during the massive start operation? > I'm guessing here but I think that it would work. But I'd probably save myself some trouble and let svnsync do the work. It is "only" a matter of bandwidth and waiting for the sync to complete, whereas fiddling with a dump file means man-hours for you. Even if you loose connectivity again (and end up with a stale lock), you should be able to steal the lock and re-start from where it stopped - you don't need to do this in one big operation. Cheers, Daniel
