Moving the entire SVN instance to a newer Windows server

[Morin, Michael]

We need to move Subversion off of a Windows 2012 server and onto a Windows 2019 
server. Is there a simpler way to do this other than moving each repository one 
by one? I have over 170 repositories that I need to migrate to the new server. 
Can the entire SVN instance be backed up and restoredor copied over by some 
similar method?

Mike Morin
Senior Programmer Analyst
MaineIT, Department of Administrative and Financial Services
(207)592-6134

Re: Moving the entire SVN instance to a newer Windows server

[Mark Phippard]

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:46 AM Morin, Michael  wrote:
>
> We need to move Subversion off of a Windows 2012 server and onto a Windows 
> 2019 server. Is there a simpler way to do this other than moving each 
> repository one by one? I have over 170 repositories that I need to migrate to 
> the new server. Can the entire SVN instance be backed up and restored….or 
> copied over by some similar method?

Build the new server, install SVN, make sure it is working and
configured the way you want, then just stop both servers, copy the
entire repositories folder over to the new server and start it up.

If you can use the same DNS hostname for the new server there will be
no impact on your clients but if you change the name they will need to
use svn relocate to change the URL.

Only other thing to look out for is hook scripts that may exist in
your repositories and any dependencies those scripts rely on that
needs to be installed on the server.

Mark