On 20.09.2017 11:06, Saleh, Mai wrote: > > Hi Subversion Support, > > > > Please advise as we need to move subversion from old server with OS > RH5U3 to RH7U3, all of our repositories are hosted on NFS share. >
Don't Do That > SVN version on old server is 1.6.x and new server has version 1.9.7. > > > > Plan is to rsync old shared area hosting repositories to new shared > area and copy configuration files to the same path on new server. So > repositories and configuration files will be in exact paths. Then we > will rename new server with original server name. > > > > > > Initial test succeeded, but we need to know is there anything that we > need to take care of, > Yes. Do not put your repositories on an NFS share. That is not guaranteed to work correctly (because file renames over NFS are not atomic). > do we have to use dump and load as that will take lots of time, due to > history and size of repositories. > No, the 1.9 server can use repositories created by version 1.6, but you will not get all the new features and performance enhancements; see: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#new-feature-compatibility-table http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#new-feature-compatibility-table http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html#new-feature-compatibility-table > Do users need to create a new working copies? > No. -- Brane
