svnadmin hotcopy E150002 Destination already exists

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Hi,

A user reported the above error in the TortoiseSVN user group [1]. I advised them to send it here but for some reason that doesn’t work (I’ve checked that it isn’t waiting for moderation). I’m taking the liberty to copy the original question below:

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Hey there, we do hotcopies of our repos every night. Occasionally, for some time now, hotcopy fails with the following error:

  svnadmin: E150002: Destination 'K:\repo01\db\locks\2ca' already exists

Mostly, a second run finishes without any errors.

It does not happen to the same repos every day. So the next day it could be:
  svnadmin: E150002: Destination 'K:\repo05\db\locks\02c' already exists
or
  svnadmin: E150002: Destination 'K:\repo13\db\locks\039' already exists

The affected locks-folders are always different.

It happens to old repos that were not touched in a long time, as well as currently used ones.

Destination is a SMB file share on a Synology NAS (HDDs). As I see, svnadmin hotcopy clears the locks-folders in the destination every time. Can it be that the NAS is just too slow and cannot keep up with this process?

Thanks!

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Kind regards,

Daniel Sahlberg 

1 https://groups.google.com/g/tortoisesvn/c/YxC51xgZn_8

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

"Old repos" hints at a lot of issues. Failing hard drives on the NAS
is one. timeouts if you're doing this on a CIFS mounted drive is
another. Why aren't you doing svnsync or an rsync based tool, rather
than svnadmin hotcopy, to reduce the burden of copying the entire
repo?

[Olaf Hoffmann (Mimimi)]

For sure, we use hotcopy incrementally to not copy whole repos every time. We use hotcopy because we want full backups, incl. configs, and for transactional consistency. The NAS is mounted with SMBv3.

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From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2023 01:25
To: Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l...@gmail.com>
Cc: Subversion <us...@subversion.apache.org>
Subject: Re: svnadmin hotcopy E150002 Destination already exists

 

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