> 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.
So, are you saying svnsync will be faster than a dump/load? I didn't know the guid was stored in a file. BOb