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Submitted by walter on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 6:35am

Hello,

I am trying to dump the svn repository in the jump box.
I use the command:
sudo svnadmin dump /var/data/projects/svn/project > /storage/test.dmp
unfortunately something goes wrong and I receive the message:
--bash: /storage/test/test.dmp: Permission denied
while I have created the test folder myself and I am able to create any text file using nano in that folder.

what do I wrong and how should I create a dump of the svn repository?

Thanks in advance
Walter

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dump svn repository

Submitted by godber on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 6:54am.

Hi Walter,
This is one of those silly UNIX command line things. The sudo only applies to the part of the command BEFORE the ">..." So the svnadmin command is being run as root, but the redirection is is still run as your current user. You have at least three options:

  • Make sure admin has permission to write in the destination directory
    sudo mkdir /storage/test && sudo chown admin:admin /storage/test
  • temporarily switch to the root user and run the dump command 
    sudo -i
  • Run sudo on a bash subshell that runs the dump 
    sudo /bin/bash -c "svnadmin dump /var/data/projects/svn/project > /storage/test.dmp"

Austin

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