RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled? (svn 1.8 upgrade)

2013-08-22 Thread Geoff Field
> From: Thomas Harold > Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 11:53 AM > On 8/22/2013 7:11 PM, Geoff Field wrote: > Most restores for us took about 5-10 minutes, a few of our > larger repos took a few hours. I was doing this all in the background via remote login to our SVN server, so I didn't monitor ti

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled? (svn 1.8 upgrade)

2013-08-22 Thread Thomas Harold
On 8/22/2013 7:11 PM, Geoff Field wrote: 6. Create the repository in svn 1.8. I'm sure there's an "upgrade" command that would do it all in-place. 7. Strip permissions on the repository back down to 700, owned by root:root while we reload the data. While, or before? Step 6 created the rep

RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled? (svn 1.8 upgrade)

2013-08-22 Thread Geoff Field
Hi Thomas, > From: Thomas Harold > Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013 1:25 AM > On 8/21/2013 7:13 PM, Geoff Field wrote: > > I'm keeping the > > original BDB repositories, with read-only permissions. > > If I really have the need, I can restart Apache 2 with SVN > > 1.2.3 and > > go back to the origi

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled? (svn 1.8 upgrade)

2013-08-22 Thread Thomas Harold
On 8/21/2013 7:13 PM, Geoff Field wrote:> I'm keeping the original BDB repositories, with read-only permissions. If I really have the need, I can restart Apache 2 with SVN 1.2.3 and go back to the original repositories. Otherwise, I also have the option of re-running my batch file (modifying it i

RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Geoff Field
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013 8:10 AM I would never do a transfer like this without a copy of the dumpfile available, for reference. The pain of having to re-run the dump later, especially if there are any bugs in the "svnadmin load" conf

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I would never do a transfer like this without a copy of the dumpfile available, for reference. The pain of having to re-run the dump later, especially if there are any bugs in the "svnadmin load" configuration, normally justifies keeping the dump around until well after the migraiton is completed.

RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Geoff Field
> From: Thorsten Schöning > Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:21 PM > Guten Tag Geoff Field, > am Mittwoch, 21. August 2013 um 08:29 schrieben Sie: > > > I've just realised that my concern was based on a power-of-2 > > limitation that means that a 32-bit signed integer would > roll over at > >

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Geoff Field, am Mittwoch, 21. August 2013 um 08:29 schrieben Sie: > I've just realised that my concern was based on a power-of-2 > limitation that means that a 32-bit signed integer would roll over > at the 2GB mark, with an unsigned roll-over at 4GB. It's possible > the Windows Server

RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Geoff Field
> From: Ben Reser > Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:07 PM > > On 8/20/13 11:29 PM, Geoff Field wrote: > > Note that we have the old version 1.2.3 server software installed at > > the C:\Program Files\Subversion location, and later versions > > are stored under other locations, with the path se

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-21 Thread Ben Reser
On 8/20/13 11:29 PM, Geoff Field wrote: > Note that we have the old version 1.2.3 server software installed at the C:\Program Files\Subversion location, and later versions are stored under other locations, with the path set to point to the new version. I'm creating the new repositories with the old

RE: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-20 Thread Geoff Field
> From: Ben Reser > Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 12:12 PM > On Tue Aug 20 16:44:08 2013, Geoff Field wrote: > > I've seen some quite large dump files already - one got up > > to about 28GB. The svnadmin 1.2.3 tool managed to cope with > > that quite successfully. Right now, our largest repos

Re: How Big A Dump File Can Be Handled?

2013-08-20 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue Aug 20 16:44:08 2013, Geoff Field wrote: > I've seen some quite large dump files already - one got up to about 28GB. > The svnadmin 1.2.3 tool managed to cope with that quite successfully. Right > now, our largest repository (some 19,000 revisions with many files, including > installati