On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: >> >> > Has anything been done to improve the speed of a load. Last time I did it, >> when moving from 1.5 to 1.6 it took over 12 hours. And now, two years later >> the repo is probably quite a bit bigger (because we stupidly store binaries >> in >> it, I might change that when upgrading to 1.7). >> >> You can pre-configure by using svnsync to pre-create a new repository, and >> replicate relevant configuration files or scripts manually when ready to >> switchover. This is what I've used for migrating between servers that do not >> have shared back end storage, especially when updating operating systems >> and Subversion releases on the servers. > > But, doesn't that change the GUID of the repository thus not allowing a > relocate switch?
Until you manually copy over the $repodir/db/uuid file, this is true. That's one of the "relevant configuraton files" I referred to.
