Re: [TSVN] Moving a local repository to a server

Barnett, Chris wrote:

> I have a local repository created by TortiseSVN (1.0.6, Build 1200,
> UNICODE) on a Win2K box. I'd like to move this repository to a Linux
> server (RH9 + apache2 + subversion 1.0.4). The Linux server is already
> capable of serving subversion repositories via WebDAV.
>
> My question is can I simply copy the windows repository directory to the
> linux box? Will this work? Has anyone tried this before? Did it work?
> Were there issues?

Simply copying won't work. The berkeley db has a different format on
Win2k and Linux. Bug you can do an
'svnadmin dump'
on the Win2k box, and then copy the dump file to the linux box. Then do
'svnadmin load'
on the linux box to load the dump file into a fresh (new created)
repository.

Stefan

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Received on Wed Jun 23 08:41:46 2004