On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Besides the time what is the advantage of svn dump & load vs ftp for moving >> a Repository to a new location ? >> >> What type of "clean-up" might take place to reduce disk space when using >> the dump & load method vs ftp ? > > Dump/Load of a repository using the same format repository should give > the same results. If you are moving to a newer format repository
Dump/load does *not* reproduce hook scripts or authenticaton configuratons, that kind of repository metadata has to be mirrored separately. Even "hotcopy" doesn't handle file ownership completely. > where there have been changes to reduce space then you might see a > reduction. For example, repositories created with SVN 1.6 only stores > files whose contents are identical once. This can potentially save > space depending on how many identical files you have. The repository > format is not always changed to reduce space, so you really would have > to look at what the new format brings for changes. > > -- > Thanks > > Mark Phippard > http://markphip.blogspot.com/ >
