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Re: Moving repository across servers : storage format problem

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:11:11 +0200

Did you checkout over file:/// ?

Andy Levy wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 14:04:23 -0400:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 13:24, Gingko <from_tigris_at_nospam.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to move a Subversion repository from one server (running Windows
> > XP Professional SP3) to another (running Linux Debian 5 Lenny)
> >
> > The first server (on Windows) actually has Subversion installed through a
> > VisualSVN GUI interface.
> > The second server has Subversion version 1.5.1 installed from Debian packet
> > (as it is the latest stable version provided by Debian).
> >
> > I first tried to just copy the directory from the first computer to the
> > second one, and check if it works.
> > But unfortunately, when trying to checkout the repository content, I got the
> > following error message :
> >
> > "Format de stockage attendu entre '1' et '3' ; format trouvé '4'"
> >
> > (so in English, something like "Expected storage format between '1' and '3',
> > found format '4'")
> >
> > Seeing that, I completely deleted the repository that I just copied, and I
> > tried again, creating a new empty repository and moving using "svnadmin
> > dump" on the first computer, and "svnadmin load" on the second one.
> >
> > But, more surprisingly, when trying to checkout, I still get this very same
> > error message .... !!!???
> >
> > So I ask the question :
> > How can I move repositories between computers running different OS,
> > different versions of Subversion and different repository formats ?
>
> This is precisely what svnadmin dump/load is designed to address. So,
> step by step, how exactly did you do this? And are you certain that
> you have only one version of all the Subversion libraries installed on
> your Debian server?
Received on 2010-11-04 19:14:03 CET

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