Mark Phippard wrote on Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16:10 -0400: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinker...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > A local SVN "expert" tells me svnsync is all I need with regards to > > moving several (about 2 hundred) repositories from a Unix server to a > > Linux server even though there are mixed versions of SVN. > > > > Some are 1.5x others are 1.6.x (all are FSFS).and the destination > > server will have > > 1.6.17 svn installed ( Subversion Edge ) > > > > Is it possible it is as simple as say doing an SFTP of all the Unix > > Repositories to the Linux server then running svnsync on each repo ? > > > > any one done this successfully I am a bit of a skeptic when a task of > > this magnitude ids described as being too simple. WE are taking about > > several repos many well over 4GB > > > > If the existing repositories are FSFS, you could actually just move the > repositories to the new server and use them. IOW, just copy the repository > folder to the new server. >
And make sure /not/ to copy rep-cache.db that way. SQLite doesn't promise that the resulting db will be valid or consistent.
