RE: Re: How to relocate a subversion server

So if tar/untar is enough to relocate a svn repository, then would this
work as a very simple backup strategy as well?
Basically, zipping up the repo on an interval? (assuming my repo isn't
huge)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2007a@ryandesign.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:08 PM
To: ying lcs
Cc: Phil; users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: How to relocate a subversion server

On Mar 11, 2007, at 20:10, ying lcs wrote:

> Technically speaking, tar on 1 machine/untar on aonther should work,
> right?

If you're running the same version of Subversion, and the repositories
are FSFS-based, then yes. If the repositories are BDB- based, then I
believe you must also be sure that the version of BDB is the same, and
that the processor architecture endianness is the same. If it isn't, or
you're not sure, the safe way that would always work is to svnadmin dump
the old repo on the old machine, and svnadmin load it into a new repo on
the new machine.

> I don't understand why it creates a 'trunk' directory when I check
> out like this:
> svn co file:///srv/svn/repositories/test/trunk

Because that is what Subversion does. RTFM. From "svn help checkout":

usage: checkout URL[@REV]... [PATH]

   If specified, REV determines in which revision the URL is first
   looked up.

   If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be used as
   the destination. If multiple URLs are given each will be checked
   out into a sub-directory of PATH, with the name of the sub-directory
   being the basename of the URL.

This means that since you did not specify a path in which to checkout,
it chose the last part of the URL, which was trunk. If you wanted to
check out your trunk to a directory called foo instead, you should use:

svn co file:///srv/svn/repositories/test/trunk foo

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