On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinkerton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Besides the time what is the advantage of svn dump & load vs ftp for moving
>> a Repository to a new location ?
>>
>> What type of "clean-up" might take place to reduce disk space when using
>> the dump & load method vs ftp ?
>
> Dump/Load of a repository using the same format repository should give
> the same results. If you are moving to a newer format repository
Dump/load does *not* reproduce hook scripts or authenticaton
configuratons, that kind of repository metadata has to be mirrored
separately. Even "hotcopy" doesn't handle file ownership completely.
> where there have been changes to reduce space then you might see a
> reduction. For example, repositories created with SVN 1.6 only stores
> files whose contents are identical once. This can potentially save
> space depending on how many identical files you have. The repository
> format is not always changed to reduce space, so you really would have
> to look at what the new format brings for changes.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>
Received on 2011-09-22 05:35:10 CEST