Just upgraded my server from 1.7 to 1.8. Now looking to do a dump and load of all the repositories hosted on the server.
I've got a crazy idea for minimizing downtime - since the servers are *not* being constantly bombarded with commits, I'm thinking that I can just do a dump/load on the fly, and see if any commits came in while the dump was happening, and if they did, try the dump again. That is: STARTREV = `svnlook youngest repodir/$REPONAME` svnadmin create reload/$REPONAME svndump repodir/$REPONAME | svnadmin load reload/$REPONAME ENDREV = `svnlook youngest repodir/$REPONAME` if "$STARTREV" == "$ENDREV"; then mv repodir/$REPONAME older/$REPONAME mv reload/$REPONAME repodir/$REPONAME fi # and if the above didn't match, repeat the above until success. There's the tiniest bit of a race condition at the very end. But is it safe to do an svnadmin dump on a live repository? Eric.
