Re: Help in upgrade to 1.5 and move to new server

On Jul 11, 2008, at 16:22, Gupta, Praful wrote:

> Hello ... We are currently running a server on versio 1.2 and have
> purchased a new server to upgrade to 1.5. I wanted to get some
> suggestions on certain steps for this move:
>
> 1) I know the best way is to take a dump of the old root and load
> it onto the new server, is this still the best approach?

Yes.

> 2) Any variations of hotcopy cmd which would take a repository URL
> as a parameter rather than a path?

No. Furthermore, a hotcopy is only useful if your new server has the
same processor architecture, same OS and same version of BerkeleyDB
as the old server. If any of these differ, dump and load.

> 3) I also am looking for a suggestion on trying to keep the 2
> servers synced up until we decide to cut one off, any suggestions
> in this route will be help ful?

svnsync. In fact you can use svnsync to handle your migration instead
of dump/load or hotcopy.

> 4) Can I take a full dump of the old root and load it up to the new
> server and then run incremental updates like eveery night or
> something off a cron job?

Yes. But use svnsync.

Note:

svnsync and dump/load will not preserve repository hooks or config
files. Move these over manually.

dump/load will not preserve locks. You can move the db/locks
directory over manually if you want to preserve locks (provided your
repository uses FSFS, not BDB).

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Received on 2008-07-11 23:31:33 CEST