On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Giulio Troccoli < giulio.trocc...@mediatelgroup.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm working on a plan to upgrade our server from 1.4.6 to 1.6.17. > > We have 75 repositories, with an average size of 30MB. They're not big, I > agree, but I wonder if anyone has any tip on how to estimate how long the > "svnadmin upgrade" command will take. I mean, will it be a matter or minutes > or hours? > svnadmin upgrade runs in literally a few milliseconds. All it does is change the format number of the repository. If you want to fully move to all of the new repository features in 1.6 you have to do dump/load which will take longer. > > Also, I'm confused whether I need to run "svnadmin pack" as well, or if the > upgrade will do it for me. If I need to run, does anyone has an idea of how > long it could take? > svnadmin pack is never an automatic feature. Unless you are really short on inodes in the volume I would not even recommend running it. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
