Migrating Subversion Repositories across servers

Question

We\'re in the process of moving servers and one of the last items is moving over the svn repositories.

There are about 10 gigs of various svn repositories. They wer

Answer 1

For more info on svnadmin dump and svnadmin load for svn 1.6 see here. It offers some discussion on dump and load, as well as options like --deltas, --incremental, and others.

Also, be warned that if you do a straight copy and svnadmin upgrade you save time, but the repository state may not be optimal. From the svnadmin help :

svnadmin help upgrade

usage: svnadmin upgrade REPOS_PATH

Upgrade the repository located at REPOS_PATH to the latest supported schema version.

This functionality is provided as a convenience for repository administrators who wish to make use of new Subversion functionality without having to undertake a potentially costly full repository dump and load operation. As such, the upgrade performs only the minimum amount of work needed to accomplish this while still maintaining the integrity of the repository. It does not guarantee the most optimized repository state as a dump and subsequent load would.