svnadmin hotcopy occasionally gets E150002

[Olaf Hoffmann]

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!

[Daniel Sahlberg]

I think this question is better suited for us...@subversion.apache.org (see https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html). The error comes from deep within the Subversion library. Since you are using the svnadmin command line tool anyway that also indicates that this isn't the best place for you to get help since this group is mostly for the TortoiseSVN GUI client.

Kind regards,

Daniel Sahlberg

[Olaf]

I've attempted that before, but my message, which is identical, hasn't been approved and consequently, hasn't been posted. I also reached out to the owner, but haven't received a response yet.

Anyway, Daniel, thank you!

[Daniel Sahlberg]

tisdag 17 oktober 2023 kl. 10:42:56 UTC+2 skrev Olaf:

I've attempted that before, but my message, which is identical, hasn't been approved and consequently, hasn't been posted. I also reached out to the owner, but haven't received a response yet.

I checked the moderation queue in us...@subversion.apache.org and couldn't find any message. Please re-send it and I'll check and approve.

/Daniel

[Olaf]

Done! 🍀

[Olaf]

I just answered the post you have created in the users-group. Thanks for that! But I am not sure if that answer went through, as it again got into approval.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

There is nothing. Can you forward the e-mail to me directly (preferably as an attachment) so I can check the headers and investigate with Apache infra? daniel.l...@gmail.com

[Olaf]

I usually use the web to answer. I now answered again via e-mail + you.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

I'm not very fond of the ponymail system (the list archive used by Apache Software Foundation) but finally the message is in the archive. I hope you get some help there, I don't think there is much more I can contribute.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/b0pq2yj5o2gtognxr364xqjlgvwjp95v