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SVN Migration using tar only, is this possible (without dump or hotcopy)?

From: Stonebraker <steve.stonebraker_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:35:06 -0700 (PDT)

I need to move a few very large repositories (one over 30 GB) to
another server (both servers use SVN 1.4.0.)
Server 1: FreeBSD 6.0
Server 2: Windows Server 2003 x64
Transfer method: NFS (Network File Share)

Are there any issues with just tarring up the repositories and
transferring them over NFS to my destination server (assuming no one
commits anything) then doing a setuuid and moving over the user
database?

Will this scenario work?
1. Tar repository (assume there are no commits during tar)
2. Transfer .tar to destination server
3. untar
4. transfer svn user database to destination (modify config files so
svn knows path)
5. setuuid on repo

Note: I am unable to use svnadmin dump or hotcopy (both error out..
which is why i'd like to pursue this).

Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Received on 2010-05-13 09:35:43 CEST

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