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Re: "Can't close activity db: Error string not specified yet" error

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:31:15 +0200

Eugen Stoianovici wrote:
> I'm relocating a repository to another server. From what i've read i
> thought it is enough just to copy the repository to the other server so

No, that's not enough. And you should never, ever do that (unless you
know exactly what you're doing).

Always dump the repository:
$ svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > dumpfile
then on the new server, load the dumpfile
$ svnadmin create /path/to/repo
$ svnadmin load /path/to/repo < dumpfile

Stefan

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Received on 2008-10-06 18:31:43 CEST

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