Hi Johan
Thanks for the update. I have taken care of the hooks and configuration,
probably I missed the locks part.
I will have a look into it.
I was thinking since the IP address is changing will it cause any issue
during Checkout or commit even though the alias will be the same.
Best Regards,
Dheeraj
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:46 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:28 AM Dheeraj <kvdheeraj_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have upgraded my SVN from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 to a new server.
> > I still have RHEL 6 server in production and have an DNS alias named
> svn-server poditing to the old server. My plan is to do a SVN dump of repos
> from old server and load it on new server. Once I load all repos, I will
> make the old server (RHEL 6) to read only and then make DNS change to point
> svn-server alias to new server (RHEL 7) and make it production.
> > Do I need to do any other thing apart from this.
> > Will I get any error while doing commit/check out to the existing one,
> since server is changed.
> > Will I get "svn: E155000:" error?
>
> Hi Dheeraj,
>
> Dump & load will only transfer the versioned data (FSFS database).
> Don't forget to also copy over:
>
> - hook scripts: OLDREPOS/hooks to NEWREPOS/hooks (it's best to
> review them at this point, to make sure they'll work on the new
> machine)
>
> - conf files: OLDREPOS/conf to NEWREPOS/conf (also, review them, and
> check the new default conf files to see if there are any interesting
> new options or comments)
>
> - locks: OLDREPOS/db/locks to NEWREPOS/db/locks (the locks that are
> kept in working copies, for which a token is held on the server -- be
> sure to do this during your maintenance window)
>
> If you've done a full dump and load onto the new machine (in a freshly
> created new repository), the repository UUID should be transferred as
> well, so normally your old working copies will keep working, and you
> won't get the E155000 error.
>
> Perhaps also take a look at this FAQ entry for some more details of
> the dump&load procedure:
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#dumpload
>
> --
> Johan
>
Received on 2020-04-14 11:45:31 CEST