On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:00, Joe Bell<joe.bell_at_prodeasystems.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
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> I need to move a Subversion repository from one host to another (A to B) and
> once that is complete, shutdown A and then rename B to A (to preserve the
> hostname, etc.). My first thought was to use svnadmin dump, transfer the
> file, and then load with –force-uuid, however, this was painfully slow and I
> got stopped by a checksum error on the load.
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> My question is, can I just shutdown access to the repository (no clients
> reading/writing to it), and then rsync the repository over to the new
> machine? It’s a lot faster than dump/load and I can’t currently see why
> that won’t work just fine.
Use svnsync to make the new server a mirror of the old, then shut down
the old one. This way, people can keep committing to the old server &
the transactions will be replayed on the new one automatically (as
long as you set up svnsync in a post-commit hook), for minimal
downtime.
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Received on 2009-06-18 17:25:25 CEST