Re: Estimation of repository upgrade

On 8/5/2011 12:27 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
> > Until you manually copy over the $repodir/db/uuid file, this is true.
> > That's one of the "relevant configuraton files" I referred to.
>
> So, are you saying svnsync will be faster than a dump/load?
>
> I didn't know the guid was stored in a file.
>
>
> svnsync is slower than dump/load. I think the issue is that you can
> keep the old repository online during the process and switch when you
> are ready.
>
> BTW, why copy a file you are not supposed to when you could just use the
> svnadmin setuuid command to make the Repository UUID match between the
> two repositories? No need to involve yourself in the internals of the
> repository when there is a public interface to do it for you.

Can you copy from source to dest in one step with the interface (or
svnsync) like scp or rsync will do for you?

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