On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Neil Bird wrote:
>
> Whilst suffering a subversion server outage, it's made me wonder: we
> currently produce nightly backups of our repos via 'hotcopy' from the
> server's local drive to a network store.
>
> If the server were to die, would I be able to take th
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 02:13:35PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 26/10/11 12:28, Stefan Sperling typed ...
> >With FSFS repositories, yes, it will work if you copy the files
> >onto the new system from the network store (it might not if you try
> >to mount a disk from the old system on the
Around about 26/10/11 12:28, Stefan Sperling typed ...
With FSFS repositories, yes, it will work if you copy the files
onto the new system from the network store (it might not if you try
to mount a disk from the old system on the new system directly, then
it depends on OS filesystem support and e
Stefan Sperling writes:
> With BDB repositories, it will not work, so you should dump/load.
Is that right? According to the documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/gsg/C/databaseLimits.html
the BDB database files are portable. I think the BDB environment files
are pl
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:23:46PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
>
> Whilst suffering a subversion server outage, it's made me wonder:
> we currently produce nightly backups of our repos via 'hotcopy' from
> the server's local drive to a network store.
>
> If the server were to die, would I be able
Whilst suffering a subversion server outage, it's made me wonder: we
currently produce nightly backups of our repos via 'hotcopy' from the
server's local drive to a network store.
If the server were to die, would I be able to take those copies and place
them under a server on a new box
