Quick query on svnadmin dump & load

[Nitin <ni...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I need to format my current Subversion (subversion-1.4.6_1) server running
on FreeBSD 6 (due to some package corruption issues unrelated to Subversion)
and reload it with the new version of FreeBSD 7 and latest version of
Subversion. As such, I have to take a backup of the existing repositories
and restore the same once I have upgraded the OS and Subversion.

Will a svnadmin dump of each of the repositiories and thereafter svnadmin
load in the new instance do the job without losing revision history?

I am asking just to confirm as I am doing this for the first time.

Thanks & regards,

Nitin

Re: Quick query on svnadmin dump & load

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 06:50, Nitin wrote:

> I need to format my current Subversion (subversion-1.4.6_1) server  
> running on FreeBSD 6 (due to some package corruption issues  
> unrelated to Subversion) and reload it with the new version of  
> FreeBSD 7 and latest version of Subversion. As such, I have to take  
> a backup of the existing repositories and restore the same once I  
> have upgraded the OS and Subversion.
>
> Will a svnadmin dump of each of the repositiories and thereafter  
> svnadmin load in the new instance do the job without losing  
> revision history?
>
> I am asking just to confirm as I am doing this for the first time.
>

Yes.

However, note that any locks that were held in the repository will  
not be preserved in a dump. All files will be unlocked in the new  
repository.

Also, the dump does not preserve repository configuration or hook  
scripts. If you have made changes there, back up and restore those  
items as well.



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Re: Quick query on svnadmin dump & load

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 07:50, Nitin <ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to format my current Subversion (subversion-1.4.6_1) server running
> on FreeBSD 6 (due to some package corruption issues unrelated to Subversion)
> and reload it with the new version of FreeBSD 7 and latest version of
> Subversion. As such, I have to take a backup of the existing repositories
> and restore the same once I have upgraded the OS and Subversion.
>
> Will a svnadmin dump of each of the repositiories and thereafter svnadmin
> load in the new instance do the job without losing revision history?

That's one of the reasons for the existence of svnadmin dump/load

The fine manual, as usual, delivers:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate

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