Migrating repository win32 --> linux

[Jano <al...@mosteo.com>]

Hi,

I'm in need of do such a migration. At first I was going to do a bulk 
copy of the repository and then use svn switch --relocate in the working 
copies, but I don't know if that could mess some internal thing.

Reading through the docs, I see the svnadmin dump/load options. The 
examples talk about version migrations, so I wonder: is this the way to 
go for my needs? I'll try nonetheless but I'll be grateful if you can 
confirm/point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Alex.


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Re: Migrating repository win32 --> linux

[Jano <al...@mosteo.com>]

Jano wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
>> You can move repositories between OSes providing the source and
>> destination machines have the same byte order (i.e. 
>> big-endian/little-endian). But you need to "svnadmin recover" the
>> repository on the new machine to rewrite the Berkeley DB shared memory 
>> backing files to be compatible with the new OS.
> 
> 
> Uuups, I've tried that but the "svnadmin recover" fails and suggest to 
> do a recover %-)
> 
> I'm waiting for a big dump FTP transfer, hope to be luckier this time.

The import worked flawlessly.

Thanks!


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Re: Migrating repository win32 --> linux

[Jano <al...@mosteo.com>]

Max Bowsher wrote:

> You can move repositories between OSes providing the source and
> destination machines have the same byte order (i.e. 
> big-endian/little-endian). But you need to "svnadmin recover" the
> repository on the new machine to rewrite the Berkeley DB shared 
> memory backing files to be compatible with the new OS.

Uuups, I've tried that but the "svnadmin recover" fails and suggest to 
do a recover %-)

I'm waiting for a big dump FTP transfer, hope to be luckier this time.

Thanks,

Alex.


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Re: Migrating repository win32 --> linux

[Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>]

Jano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in need of do such a migration. At first I was going to do a bulk
> copy of the repository and then use svn switch --relocate in the working
> copies, but I don't know if that could mess some internal thing.
>
> Reading through the docs, I see the svnadmin dump/load options. The
> examples talk about version migrations, so I wonder: is this the way to
> go for my needs? I'll try nonetheless but I'll be grateful if you can
> confirm/point me in the right direction.

Dump/load would work, but, unless you are running linux on some unusual processer (by which I mean non-x86), there is a faster way:

You can move repositories between OSes providing the source and destination machines have the same byte order (i.e.
big-endian/little-endian). But you need to "svnadmin recover" the repository on the new machine to rewrite the Berkeley DB shared
memory backing files to be compatible with the new OS.

Max.


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