Re: Confirmation of an svnadmin dump and load

Patricia A Moss wrote:
>
> >"svndumptool diff" can show you the difference (if any) between two
> dumpfiles.
>
> Is it possible to use this with 2 different servers? I have quite a few
> repositories to move so I can not load each one of them twice. Once I
> get it loaded onto the new server is it possible to use this command to
> diff between the new server and the old server?
>

If I were doing this and the servers were mostly identical (same OS, similar
CPU), I'd probably just make sure no one could access the service and rsync the
repository trees. A dump and load is recommended because it will always work
even if the systems are not similar and it gives a newer version a chance to
optimize the storage format, but rsync is a lot faster and all you have to do to
verify it is run it again with the -v option (if it doesn't display any
filenames, nothing changed in the 2nd run). Plus, you can run it once even
while the system is live to get the bulk of the data copied, then do a quick
pass when there is no activity to pick up the final changes (at least with the
fsfs storage, I'm not sure how well this works with bdb).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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