Hi
Did you try a dump instead of the hotcopy?
Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
> I have read in the subversion book that it's completely possible to use
> 1.5.x clients against a 1.4.x subversion server/repository and how to use
> hotcopy to backup a repository and then move it to another machine.
>
> Unfortunately I think I may have come up against a wall in my desires
> because nowhere can i find anything about moving a repository created on
> Subversion 1.5.x (1.5.2 in my case) to a machine running 1.4.x. I have
> created my hotcopy and moved it from a RHEL4 box running the CollabNet
> Subversion server version 1.5.2 to an OpenBSD 4.4 box with subversion
> installed from packages which happens to be version 1.4.4. Working with
> repos created with 1.4.4 obviously works fine with both the native
> svnadmin tools and also viewvc.
>
> When i try to work with the moved repository I keep getting messages
> similar to:
>
> #svnlook info test_repo
> svnlook: Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'
>
> and using viewvc very similar error:
>
> An Exception Has Occurred
> Python Traceback
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.7/lib/viewvc.py", line 3746, in main
> request.run_viewvc()
> File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.7/lib/viewvc.py", line 265, in run_viewvc
> cfg.general.svn_path)
> File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.7/lib/vclib/svn/__init__.py", line 606, in
> __init__
> self.repos = repos.svn_repos_open(rootpath, self.pool)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libsvn/repos.py", line 47,
> in svn_repos_open
> return apply(_repos.svn_repos_open, args)
> SubversionException: ("Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'", 160043)
>
>
> Is there a way to make the 1.4.4 server work with the repos created on the
> 1.5.2 server?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Aaron Martinez
>
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