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 repository. >> If the repository is using BerkeleyDB (BDB) you should also use the >> same version of BerkeleyDB that the old server was using, otherwise >> you may need to do some upgrades on the repository before you can >> read it. > > Thanks, that worked beautifully! I built Subversion 1.6.11 with BDB > 4.3.29, and then I could access the repositary using a file-URL. > Though it took me some time to find out which version of BDB I need. > Fortunately, the documentation of the server is accessible using the > Wayback Machine, and I found that it was most likely running FreeBSD > 4.11.
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 Now that you have access to the old repository, you may want to take this opportunity to convert the repository into a dumpfile (using svnadmin dump) and back that up, so that in the future you can quite easily load that dumpfile into any newer version of Subversion on any machine.
