On 3/30/07, Maxim Veksler <hq4ever@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Andy Levy <andy.levy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/30/07, Frank Facciola <frank.facciola@sknt.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Can I take a svndump from a BDB database running SVN v1.08 and load it into
> > > a new repository on a different server that is running SVN v1.3.2, but has
> > > been compiled without BDB and is using the FSFS?
> >
> > Yes, this is one of the reasons for having the dumpfile functionality.
> > SVN dumps are platform- and backend-agnostic and are one of the the
> > safest ways to move repositories across Subversion versions (and the
> > only way to change back-ends, AFAIK).
> >
>
> And on an OT note: Dumps are also better for backups, because the
> software (if it's smart enough) can make incremental backup of the
> dumped file.
Or you could keep track of when you last dumped, and use svnadmin dump
--incremental to only dump the changes since the last dump.
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Received on Fri Mar 30 19:58:19 2007