Use rsync between machines, not cp. Read thoroughly on options that
rsync provides and you will be sorted. Repeat the same rsync until
nothing is to be copied. Also, make sure than permissions are
equivalently effective 100% and nobody is using the repository while
you're doing the rsync.
R.
Richard Lichvar wrote:
>
> We recently moved a very large SVN repository from one Linux server to
> another (RHEL 5 to CentOS 5.3). I was told to just copy over the
> repository and the appropriate conf files. (Unfortunately there isn’t
> enough disk space on the old machine to export this multi-GB
> repository.) While the Kerberos authentication we do seems to work, we
> get a “no such revision” when trying to browse the repository. (This
> is from a local test repository on my local PC.) We are using
> variously TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN (the .NET developers using Visual
> Studio).
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> 1. Is this a problem which can be fixed?
>
> 2. Or, do we actually have to export the repository on the old
> machine (probably to an NFS share we’ll have to have our IS department
> create) and then create the repository new on the new machine and
> import the repository? (In other words, can the repository and conf
> files be copied over as suggested and perhaps in the copy process did
> something screw-up? We did have a couple of cases where revs didn’t
> want to copy; but after multiple re-trys they did. The revs in
> question happened to be 1+ GB each.)
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>
> Many thanks for your help with this!
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