Re: Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-09 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > For others wondering "how do I figure out what version of BDB I was using > back then?" there are instructions here for figuring it out: > > http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#divining-bdb-version Which only works if there are log-files, w

Re: Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 8, 2010, at 11:10, Felix E. Klee wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Since you only have the old database, your best bet is to get >> a machine with the same processor architecture as the old server, >> and a version of Subversion at least as new, and access the r

Re: Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 7, 2010, at 12:03, Bob Archer wrote: >> On May 7, 2010, at 10:09, Felix E. Klee wrote: >> >>> From a server that is not running anymore, I have a backup of the >> Subversion database: /var/db/svn >> >> It would have been better to back up a dumpfile of the repository, since >> dumpfiles

RE: Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-07 Thread Bob Archer
> On May 7, 2010, at 10:09, Felix E. Klee wrote: > > > From a server that is not running anymore, I have a backup of the > Subversion database: /var/db/svn > > It would have been better to back up a dumpfile of the repository, since > dumpfiles are portable. > > > > Now I want to check out the

Re: Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 7, 2010, at 10:09, Felix E. Klee wrote: > From a server that is not running anymore, I have a backup of the Subversion > database: /var/db/svn It would have been better to back up a dumpfile of the repository, since dumpfiles are portable. > Now I want to check out the latest version

Reading an old SVN database

2010-05-07 Thread Felix E. Klee
>From a server that is not running anymore, I have a backup of the Subversion database: /var/db/svn Now I want to check out the latest version of every repository in that database. What's the best way to proceed?