Subversion Complete Reference
Name
svnadmin help
svnadmin help
Synopsis
svnadmin help [SUBCOMMAND...]
Description
This subcommand is useful when you're trapped on a desert island with neither a net connection nor a copy of this book.
Alternate Names
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svnadmin hotcopy -- Make a hot copy of a repository. svnadmin hotcopy
Synopsis
svnadmin hotcopy REPOS_PATH NEW_REPOS_PATH
Description
This subcommand makes a full “hot” backup of your repository, including all hooks, configuration files, and, of course, database files. If you pass the --clean-logs switch, svnadmin will perform a hotcopy of your repository, and then remove unused Berkeley DB logs from the original repository. You can run this command at any time and make a safe copy of the repository, regardless of whether other processes are using the repository.
Switches
--clean-logs
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svnadmin list-dblogs -- Ask Berkeley DB which log files exist for a given Subversion repository (applies only to repositories using the bdb backend).
svnadmin list-dblogs
Synopsis
svnadmin list-dblogs REPOS_PATH
Description
Berkeley DB creates logs of all changes to the repository, which allow it to recover in the face of catastrophe. Unless you enable DB_LOGS_AUTOREMOVE, the log files accumulate, although most are no longer used and can be deleted to reclaim disk space. See the section called “Managing Disk Space” for more information.
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svnadmin list-unused-dblogs -- Ask Berkeley DB which log files can be safely deleted (applies only to repositories using the bdb backend).
svnadmin list-unused-dblogs
Synopsis
svnadmin list-unused-dblogs REPOS_PATH
Description
Berkeley DB creates logs of all changes to the repository, which allow it to recover in the face of catastrophe. Unless you enable DB_LOGS_AUTOREMOVE, the log files accumulate, although most are no longer used and can be deleted to reclaim disk space. See the section called “Managing Disk Space” for more information.
Examples
Remove all unused log files from a repository:
$ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /path/to/repos /path/to/repos/log.0000000031 /path/to/repos/log.0000000032 /path/to/repos/log.0000000033
$ svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /path/to/repos | xargs rm ## disk space reclaimed!
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