I have restored a CVS repository on a Solaris machine without any
problems.

Possibly it is something such as the CVS system being active them you
tried the restore, becoming confused and wiping out the data as it is
restored.

Russell





> We are currently backing up large cvs repositories with adsm. When
> attemting to restore the files adsm will give us zero length files,
> however in viewing the files via the GUI it indicates the real size of
> the file which is not zero k. We do most of our restores via command line.
> On very rare occasions we get the file restored, mostly we get 0 k
> files. IBM support indicates that the cvs naming conventions are illegal
> characters to adsm and aix (filename,v). But this is definately not the
> case with aix.
> Has anybody experienced this problem with adsm and cvs? Is there a work
around?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Bruce