Re: Moving Repositories to New Server

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:19, James Green <James.Green_at_occam-dm.com> wrote:
>> Better to follow this procedure.
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#s
>> vn.reposadmin.maint.migrate
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> I've just had a read through this link and I'm not sure what I would
> gain by going through this process. Why would you prefer this method
> over a plain copy?

It's much safer and eliminates any chance of corruption due to library
& architecture differences. If you're upgrading from an older version
you can more easily take advantage of newer features (better diff for
storage, better compression, etc.).

> I did a test on a small Repository copy. I then Relocated my working
> copy to point to the new server and all was well, all the history
> (revision data) was present and correct in the new version.

If you're using FSFS AND moving to the same or newer SVN version AND
no one is accessing the repository while you're doing the copy (or you
use hotcopy) AND moving to the same OS & CPU architecture, then yes,
this process will probably be OK.

But a dump/load cycle will ALWAYS work out properly.

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Received on 2009-01-13 16:25:39 CET