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

>> 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.

That worked - thanks for your help Stefan!

 - Chris

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Received on Wed Jun 23 09:12:03 2004