> -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Bruni [mailto:jbr...@icloud.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:09 PM > To: Andrew Reedick > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Dealing with very old repo format (version 1) > > > On Apr 28, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Andrew Reedick <jreed...@incomm.com> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The db/format > > lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade" > > such an old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: > E720002: Can't open > > file 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified." > > > > Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to > > manually create the db/current file? > > > > > > Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0. > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.h > > -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0." > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I'm guessing your old format was built using the BerkeleyDB backend since > many of the earlist repos defaulted to BDB until FSFS came around. If you > build your svn with BDB, does it still complain? >
Forgot to mention, "db\fs-type" is "fsfs" so BDB isn't (shouldn't) be an issuse. On the plus side, I found some ancient installers: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=469&expandFolder=469&folderID=11149
