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re: svn upgrade with dump/load

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefanfuhrmann_at_alice-dsl.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:11:45 +0200

> Stümpfig, Thomas <thomas.stuempfig_at_siemens.com
> <mailto:thomas.stuempfig_at_siemens.com?Subject=Re:%20svn%20upgrade%20with%20dump/load>>
> wrote:
>
> I plan to upgrade a 250GB Repository from 1.5 to 1.7. As I learned
> from other threads in this list, it is wise to dump and load the
> repository in order to bring everything to the latest features.
> I have to keep the revision numbers and transaction dates.
>
> Now svn dump and load offer some flexibility. And my server has 32GB
> Memory and 16 Cores.
> Now, in order to optimize the migration process would it be worth to
> split the dump into multiple dumps? And if yes, would you use delta
> dumps?
>
Hi Thomas,

You can use the 1.7 binaries for both, dump and load.
Version 1.7 svnadmin has a new "-M" parameter that
allows for using large caches for this kind of operations.

On your machine, you could set 16G aside for the
migration and do something along the lines of:

svnadmin dump -M 8000 $old | svnadmin load -M 8000 $new

The performance limiting part is the replaying of all
commits on the load side. If possible, make the /db/transactions
and /db/txn-protorevs of the target point to some RAM disk.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2011-09-27 11:12:26 CEST

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