The user's working copies should be fine. In my experience older clients are fine with newer servers and newer clients are fine with older workspace formats.
[image: --] Corneil du Plessis [image: https://]about.me/corneil <https://about.me/corneil?promo=email_sig> On 20 September 2017 at 12:29, Saleh, Mai <mai_sa...@mentor.com> wrote: > Hi Corneil, > > > > Thanks a million for your reply. > > It has been years since we use NFS, so no worries about that. > > > > Can I know please what will be the risk to use rsync as it worked in our > tests. > > > > Do users need to create a new working copies after moving to new version? > > > > > > > > > > *Thanks & BRs* > > > > *Mai Saleh* > > *IT Global Technologies & Infrastructure* > > *Software Tools Engineer* > > > > *From:* corneil.duples...@gmail.com [mailto:corneil.duples...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:23 PM > *To:* Saleh, Mai <mai_sa...@mentor.com> > *Cc:* users@subversion.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Subversion Server Replacement Query > > > > In short: > > Don't host on NFS or any remote filesystem. > > It is better to dump and import, you can do the dump with old or new > version but will only benefit from all new features and stability with the > repository in the newer version. > > > > > > > *Corneil du Plessis* > > about.me/corneil > > > > > > On 20 September 2017 at 11:06, Saleh, Mai <mai_sa...@mentor.com> wrote: > > Hi Subversion Support, > > > > Please advise as we need to move subversion from old server with OS RH5U3 > to RH7U3, all of our repositories are hosted on NFS share. > > SVN version on old server is 1.6.x and new server has version 1.9.7. > > > > Plan is to rsync old shared area hosting repositories to new shared area > and copy configuration files to the same path on new server. So > repositories and configuration files will be in exact paths. Then we will > rename new server with original server name. > > > > > > Initial test succeeded, but we need to know is there anything that we need > to take care of, do we have to use dump and load as that will take lots of > time, due to history and size of repositories. > > > > Do users need to create a new working copies? > > > > > > > > > > *Thanks & BRs* > > > > *Mai Saleh* > > *IT Global Technologies & Infrastructure* > > *Software Tools Engineer* > > > > >
