Thanks Olga, That was it, I had an older version of subversion on my system. From the command line (cmd.exe), it was finding the old one first. Once I explicitly used the one from VisualSvn, everything worked fine.
Thanks again ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "VisualSVN Support" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Subversion Backup > Hi! > >>The Repo3 backups fine. When I backup Repo1 and Repo2 (the ones > created from VisualSVN Server), I get > the following error: > > Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5' error > > Please check that you are using svnadmin.exe packaged with VisualSVN > Server in order not to have problems with different svn format. > > To do that please run your commands from VisualSVN Server Manager > (VisualSVN Server Manager->Command line). > > Another way is to run svnvars.bat (something like "с:\program > files\server\vsvnvars.bat" ) before the backup process to set path to > the svnadmin.exe from our distribution. > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to backup 3 repositories in my VisualSVN Server using >> svnadmin hotcopy. >> >> Here are my commands : >> >> svnadmin hotcopy c:\repositories\repo1 c:\svn-backups\repo1 --clean- >> logs >> >> svnadmin hotcopy c:\repositories\repo2 c:\svn-backups\repo2 --clean- >> logs >> >> svnadmin hotcopy c:\repositories\repo3 c:\svn-backups\repo3 --clean- >> logs >> >> Repo1 and Repo2 were create with VisualSVN Server and Repo3 was import >> into VisualSVN Server from an >> older version of "windows based" subversion. >> >> The Repo3 backups fine. When I backup Repo1 and Repo2 (the ones >> created from VisualSVN Server), I get >> the following error: >> >> Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5' error >> >> Now if I open the format file in each, Repo3 has a format number of 3. >> Repo1 and Repo2 have a format number of 5. (Again Repo1 and Repo2 were >> created with VisualSVN Server. >> >> Any ideas ? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > > > -- > Olga Dolidze > VisualSVN Support >
