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RE: migrate svn 1.4 to 1.6

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:59:37 -0500

> > I am planning a migrate/upgrade SVN server that work at
> > windows 2003 server .
> >
> > My current version is 1.4 and I want to migrate to 1.6
> >
> > 1) Should I restart the windows server at the end of the
> > process ? Is it needed?
>
> As already mentioned, not the server but you will need to restart
> apache
> / avnserve. I would shut them down before hand to make sure that
> you
> can upgrade all the files svn files properly (this is windoze after
> all). If your server never gets rebooted, now might be as good a
> time
> as any!
>
> > 2) Do anybody have the step by step of a same experience?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1160761/how-to-upgrade-svn-1-4-
> 4-r251
> 88-to-svn-1-6
> ...is the best out of the first page of search results.
>
> Remember that upgrading the server is only part of the picture.
> Any new
> repos you create will get all the benefits but existing repos will
> not
> get the full benefits unless you can find the time to do a
> dump/load.

Not 100% true, you can run svnadmin upgrade on your repositories also. It takes much less time. A dump load of our primary repo takes about a day. svnadmin upgrade (from 1.5 to 1.6 ran in about 10 mins on our repo.)

BOb

> You don't have to do this but I would think about it... Remember
> the
> clients too.
Received on 2011-02-18 16:00:17 CET

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