Backup your repository *FIRST*.
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:11 AM, west alto <westalto_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys, i'm new to upgrade using your way. which is safer using
> svnadmin dump/load or svnadmin upgrade/verify or svnadmin hotcopy
> given my situation where users can afford downtime.
>
> Please check if my process is correct:
>
> - remove svn 1.3 and all its dependencies.
> - install svn 1.6
> - backup my repository
> - svnadmin upgrade /path/to/repository
> - svnadmin verify /path/to/repository
>
> After the steps above, is my repository now usable for 1.6? any other
> steps so i could tweak my repository for best performance?
>
> or without going svnadmin upgrade and verify, i just run svnadmin
> hotcopy /path/to/old_repo_svn_1.3 /path/to/new_repo gives me an error.
> how can i handle this safely.
>
> svn01:/srv/svn # svnadmin hotcopy /srv/svn/test_repos /srv/svn/new_repos
> svnadmin: Can't open file '/srv/svn/test_repos/db/fsfs.conf': No such
> file or directory
>
> Thanks guys for your help.
>
> West
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sat, 3 Jul 2010 at 20:26 -0000:
>>> > what difference and advantage bet. linear and sharded?
>>>
>>> It's explained here, a bit:
>>>
>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.tk.fsfsreshard
>>>
>>> (You don't need the fsfs-reshard script mentioned there; that was just the only place I found a description of a sharded repository in my quick search.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The canonical definition is in the "Filesystem format options" section
>> of <http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure>.
>>
>> Daniel
>> (don't edit the 'format' file by hand, though)
>>
>
Received on 2010-07-05 08:33:52 CEST