On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Giulio Troccoli <
giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/08/11 14:18, Mark Phippard wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Giulio Troccoli <giulio.troccoli@**
>> mediatelgroup.co.uk <giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk> <mailto:
>> giulio.troccoli@**mediatelgroup.co.uk<giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk>>>
>> wrote:
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>> 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 bumps the repository format number which allows certain new
features to be used. But there are other things like representation-sharing
that require a full dump/load to get.
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2011-08-05 16:27:56 CEST