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RE: [TSVN] Error using 1.2 nightly on local 1.1 repository

From: <Bill.Hughes_at_cgi-europe.com>
Date: 2005-05-26 15:41:53 CEST

Simon Large wrote:
> Bill.Hughes wrote:
>> Can you explain why this better than the approach I took:
>> 1) svnadmin dump repo-path > backup
>> 2) delete repo
>> 3) create new repo
>> 4) svnadmin load repo_path < backup
>> 5) keep the backup around 'just in case'
>> I'm sure I'm missing something here.
>
> If you had a 100GB repository you would know the difference
> already ;-)
> dump/load is a fairly pedestrian operation when I have tried it on
> relatively small repositories.
Fair enough, I have 126 _Mb_ so I take your point!
I normally schedule this sort of thing as an overnight backup so it was easy
to migrate from the last nights copy.

>
> I presume you did the dump with the old svnadmin and the load with
> the new one.
Oh yes, I've been around too long to make that mistake. (Or if I'm being
honest, I've been around too long to make that mistake very often).

Thanks,

Bill

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