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

I thought that svnsync required the source server to be at least version 1.4.
So svnsync wouldn't work in Praful Gupta's situation, would it?

Regards,
Craig McQueen

Ryan Schmidt-42 wrote:
>
>
> 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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