> > I am planning a migrate/upgrade SVN server that work at > > windows 2003 server . > > > > My current version is 1.4 and I want to migrate to 1.6 > > > > 1) Should I restart the windows server at the end of the > > process ? Is it needed? > > As already mentioned, not the server but you will need to restart > apache > / avnserve. I would shut them down before hand to make sure that > you > can upgrade all the files svn files properly (this is windoze after > all). If your server never gets rebooted, now might be as good a > time > as any! > > > 2) Do anybody have the step by step of a same experience? > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1160761/how-to-upgrade-svn-1-4- > 4-r251 > 88-to-svn-1-6 > ...is the best out of the first page of search results. > > Remember that upgrading the server is only part of the picture. > Any new > repos you create will get all the benefits but existing repos will > not > get the full benefits unless you can find the time to do a > dump/load.
Not 100% true, you can run svnadmin upgrade on your repositories also. It takes much less time. A dump load of our primary repo takes about a day. svnadmin upgrade (from 1.5 to 1.6 ran in about 10 mins on our repo.) BOb > You don't have to do this but I would think about it... Remember > the > clients too.
