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Re: Estimation of repository upgrade

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:18:12 -0400

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:11, Giulio Troccoli
<giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/08/11 14:18, Mark Phippard wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Giulio Troccoli
>> <giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk
>> <mailto:giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>    I'm working on a plan to upgrade our server from 1.4.6 to 1.6.17.
>>
>>    We have 75 repositories, with an average size of 30MB. They're not
>>    big, I agree, but I wonder if anyone has any tip on how to
>>    estimate how long the "svnadmin upgrade" command will take. I
>>    mean, will it be a matter or minutes or hours?
>>
>>
>> svnadmin upgrade runs in literally a few milliseconds.  All it does is
>> change the format number of the repository.  If you want to fully move to
>> all of the new repository features in 1.6 you have to do dump/load which
>> will take longer.
>
> Wouldn't svnadmin upgrade give me the exact same thing as a dump/load cycle?
> If not, what would be different?

svnadmin upgrade upgrades the repository in-place to let you use the
newer features going forward, but they won't be available on older
revisions.
Received on 2011-08-05 16:19:23 CEST

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