On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: > >> >> > 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. > > svnsync is slower than dump/load. I think the issue is that you can keep > the old repository online during the process and switch when you are ready.
And you can start the process a week in advance, run performance tests on the new server, provide read access to run performance and regression tests, etc. It's often a much safer way to do a staged migration. > BTW, why copy a file you are not supposed to when you could just use the > svnadmin setuuid command to make the Repository UUID match between the two > repositories? No need to involve yourself in the internals of the > repository when there is a public interface to do it for you. Good point.
