Jan Keirse wrote on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:44:49 +0100: > Hello, > > I have a master and a slave. Now I want to discard the current master > and start using the slave as the new master (creating a new slave on > another server and stop the server that currently runs the master.) > > I think the steps to do this are the following: > * Change authz on the master so that nobody can commit.
Either that or create a start-commit hook that always fails. > * Sync the slave one last time so it's certainly up-to-date. > (Shouldn't be necessary for us because this is done automatically in a > post-commit hook of the master.) Also: disable revprop changes, and run 'svnsync copy-revprops' if needed. > * Remove the svn:sync-* properties from revision 0 of the slave. > * Change authz and hooks on the slave to what they used to be on the master. > * Have everyone relocate their working copies to the new server. Either that, or change DNS. > * Start syncing a new server so we have a slave just in case something > goes wrong on the master. > > Is this correct? Is there something I forgot? > Looks good.
