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Re: Estimation of repository upgrade

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:53:51 +0200

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

You can use svnadmin hotcopy to do that, but it won't have the same effect
as reloading.

Bye,

Erik.
Received on 2011-08-05 19:54:24 CEST

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