> On Apr 28, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Andrew Reedick <jreed...@incomm.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have any tips on how to upgrade a very old repo? The db/format > lists "1". A 1.8 svn client cannot hotcopy, dump or "svnadmin upgrade" such > an old repo, all of which fail with "svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file > 'devel\db\current': The system cannot find the file specified." > > Do I need find a really old svn client (1.3?) and upgrade? Do I need to > manually create the db/current file? > > > Supposedly , a format of "1" is from pre-svn 1.0. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.h > -> "Formats 0, 1 and 2 were pre-1.0." >
Hi Andrew, I'm guessing your old format was built using the BerkeleyDB backend since many of the earlist repos defaulted to BDB until FSFS came around. If you build your svn with BDB, does it still complain? Regards, joseph
