Backup your repository *FIRST*.
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:11 AM, west alto <westa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys, i'm new to upgrade using your way. which is safer using > svnadmin dump/load or svnadmin upgrade/verify or svnadmin hotcopy > given my situation where users can afford downtime. > > Please check if my process is correct: > > - remove svn 1.3 and all its dependencies. > - install svn 1.6 > - backup my repository > - svnadmin upgrade /path/to/repository > - svnadmin verify /path/to/repository > > After the steps above, is my repository now usable for 1.6? any other > steps so i could tweak my repository for best performance? > > or without going svnadmin upgrade and verify, i just run svnadmin > hotcopy /path/to/old_repo_svn_1.3 /path/to/new_repo gives me an error. > how can i handle this safely. > > svn01:/srv/svn # svnadmin hotcopy /srv/svn/test_repos /srv/svn/new_repos > svnadmin: Can't open file '/srv/svn/test_repos/db/fsfs.conf': No such > file or directory > > Thanks guys for your help. > > West > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: >> Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sat, 3 Jul 2010 at 20:26 -0000: >>> > what difference and advantage bet. linear and sharded? >>> >>> It's explained here, a bit: >>> >>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.tk.fsfsreshard >>> >>> (You don't need the fsfs-reshard script mentioned there; that was just the >>> only place I found a description of a sharded repository in my quick >>> search.) >>> >>> >> >> The canonical definition is in the "Filesystem format options" section >> of >> <http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure>. >> >> Daniel >> (don't edit the 'format' file by hand, though) >> >