On 7/26/2011 8:08 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:35:02AM -0400, Phil Pinkerton wrote:
Are there any know issues with regards to moving Repositories from one
platform to another ?
Will the old Repositories maintain their current SVN revision ?
Current platform Sun Solaris 10: SVN 1.6.5
Target platform Red Hat Enterprise 5 SVN 1.6.17 ( Subversion Edge )
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If your repositories are in FSFS format (check the file "db/fs-type")
you don't need to perform a dump/load cycle. It doesn't hurt,
but it can take longer than copying the repositories directly.
If the processor architectures differ, copying the repositories directly
won't work unless changes to the repository format have been made
recently. I had a problem when copying a repository from a 64-bit x86
machine to a 32-bit x86 machine, for example. (I think this was in
1.4.x, but it was years ago and I don't remember the details.) Solaris
10 suggests a SPARC machine as the source. Because of the byte ordering
difference, I'd expect major trouble when copying a repository directly
from a SPARC machine to an x86 machine.
I've used (and recommend) the svnsync approach recommended by another
poster. Downtime can be even less than when copying repository
directories directly.
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David Chapman dcchap...@acm.org
Chapman Consulting -- San Jose, CA
