Hmmm, Andy,
but svndump doesn't take along authentication and authorization data,
does it?!
Cheers,
Thomas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:25 PM
> To: James Green
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: 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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