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Re: Advice on upgrading svn and moving to new server

From: Kevin Grover <kevin_at_kevingrover.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:13:34 -0700

It's always a good idea to dump the repository as an additional backup.

When upgrading, mostly you can still access old repositories. SOMETIMES
they will be silently upgraded in someways - this will not matter if you
never access the repo with file:// (or using any older clients/servers).
Sometimes there is an svnserve upgrade command. In general, you'll
probably get the best performance by reloading from a dump.

You should read the release notes for details.

Note: the the dump format does NOT save the options set in the 'conf'
directory (if using svnserve). Nor will it save any apache specific
configurations. As an extra backup, I usually zip (or tar bzip2) the svn
repository directories.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:36, KM <info4km_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have svn 1.4.3 running on a solaris 8 server. I want to either upgrade
> this particular server to solaris 10, or move the entire thing to a new
> solaris 10 server, and also to upgrade subversion to the latest stable
> version (along with all of the dependencies of course... apache etc.)
>
> If I decide to use the same server I am now - what's the best thing to do
> ... upgrade the OS and then all of the packages and dump and load the
> repository?
>
> If I am moving - I assume I would set up the OS and packages on the new
> server including the new svn - then can I dump the repository and then load
> it on the new server - or just move the repository over and do the same?
>
> Unfortunately I upgraded to 1.4.3 a while back and haven't worked on this
> in quite some time. I apologize for stupid questions. I want this as easy
> as possible.
>
> Also has anyone ever used the webstack/glassfish SW and set it up for svn.
> Since I also use Mantis - the php would also be taken care of at the same
> time this way.... just curious.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> KM
>
Received on 2011-03-30 17:14:12 CEST

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