RE: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com]
> Sent: 8. november 2010 12:13
> To: Engebakken Geir; 'Gingko'; 'Subversion User List'
> Subject: RE: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Engebakken Geir [mailto:geir.engebakken_at_edb.com]
> > Sent: 08 November 2010 11:08
> > To: Giulio Troccoli; 'Gingko'; 'Subversion User List'
> > Subject: RE: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository
> >
> > Sounds great, but I have the notion that the UUID must be
> > identical for the two repositories for this to work, how do
> > you achieve that? Is this done by svnsync? Or isn't this
> > necessary at all?
> >
>
> Please do not top-post. My reply at the bottom.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com]
> > Sent: 8. november 2010 10:14
> > To: 'Gingko'; 'Subversion User List'
> > Subject: RE: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository
> >
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> > > From: Gingko [mailto:from_tigris_at_nospam.homelinux.org]
> > > Sent: 05 November 2010 23:50
> > > To: Subversion User List
> > > Subject: Promoting a mirror repository as a source repository
> > >
> > > Hello again,
> > >
> > > I have a (now theoretical) question :
> > >
> > > Suppose I have a repository that is a mirror repository of a remote
> > > source repository, regularly synced using svnsync.
> > >
> > > Suppose now that the source repository become broken or deleted for
> > > any reason (server breakdown, fire, etc) So the only
> > available copy of
> > > the repository is now the synced mirror repository.
> > >
> > > How could I promote my mirror repository in order to have
> > it becoming
> > > the new source repository on the mirror server or on
> > another server ?
> > >
> > > (I think that just using the mirror repository without
> > change is not
> > > enough as it contains somewhere inside it information about the old
> > > source repository, given at the beginning by "svnsync initialize",
> > > which would certainly need to be removed)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We use svnsync to keep our DR repositories ready, and the
> > procedure I have to switch to these repositories is something
> > like the following (for each repository):
> >
> > - delete the svn:sync-* revision property for revision 0
> > - modify the hooks and/or access file to allow read-write
> > access for all normal users
> > - change the DNS for the URL of the production server to
> > point to the DR server
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Giulio
>
> That's true, the UUID must be identical. Svnsync does not do that. I
> did it when I set up the repository, before even issuing the svnsync
> init. I just grabbed the UUID from the production repository, then
> create the DR repository, set it's UUID as the same as the production
> repository, issue svnsync init and start synchronising.

FYI

Just found out that from Svn 1.5 on, one can use this command to set the uuid, so that makes it possible to easily switch to a synced repository:

svnadmin setuuid
Received on 2010-11-08 16:41:38 CET