Re: migrate to new server - subversion 1.3.0 -> 1.4.3

Anne M. Hammond wrote:
> We currently use subversion 1.3.0 under apache https.
>
> I want to migrate to new hardware using subversion 1.4.3/.
>
> Is it possible to
> svnadmin dump
> svnadmin restore (on the new hardware)
> cp auth and access file from old server to new hardware
> then bring up the new hardware using the old hostname and IP address
> and the users will never know the difference?
>
> Or will users have to perform an entirely new checkout of
> the repos from the new hardware?
>

The users will also have to upgrade to 1.4.x clients if you upgrade the
repository to 1.4.x

Besides that, I "think" it should work out of the box.
At worst, you would have to do an svn switch --relocate

see: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.switch.html

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Received on Fri Jun 29 08:06:57 2007