<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svnadmin hotcopy</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html" title="svnadmin Reference—Subversion Repository Administration" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.help.html" title="svnadmin help (h, ?)" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-dblogs.html" title="svnadmin list-dblogs" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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If you pass the <code class="option">--clean-logs</code> option, <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin</strong></span> will perform a hot copy 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.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Options"> <a id="idp23181040"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.clean_logs"><code class="option">--clean-logs</code></a> </pre> </div> <div class="warning" title="Warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <table border="0" summary="Warning"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"> <img alt="[Warning]" src="images/warning.png" /> </td> <th align="left">Warning</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p>As described in <a class="xref" href="svn.reposadmin.planning.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends.bdb" title="Berkeley DB">the section called “Berkeley DB”</a>, hot-copied Berkeley DB repositories are <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> portable across operating systems, nor will they work on machines with a different <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">endianness</span>”</span> than the machine where they were created.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.help.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.list-dblogs.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">svnadmin help (h, ?) </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svnadmin list-dblogs</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-footer"> <hr /> <img src="images/cc-by.png" style="float: right;" /> <p>You are reading <em>Version Control with Subversion</em> (for Subversion 1.8), by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. 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