Philip Martin - you are correct - it was version 1.3.2 on the old server On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Philip Martin <phi...@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
> Paul Greene <paul.greene...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm migrating an SVN server to a new server. The old server is running an > > ancient version of Redhat and version 1.4 of subversion. > > > > The new server is running CentOS 7 and version 1.7 of subversion. > > > > I'm creating some test dump files to copy from the old server to the new > > one. When I go to run "svnadmin dump repo.name > repo.name.dump" I get > this > > error on some of the repos: > > > > "svnadmin: Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5' " > > > > I get the same error if I try to run this command remotely as well - "svn > > list svn://svnserver/data/subversion/repo.name" > > > > Some generate a normal result, and some generate the above error. It > seems > > the newer the repo, the more likely it will push that error. > > > > I'm guessing it's related to differing version numbers between what the > > repos were created with and the current version of the svn software. > > > > What is needed to get around this error? > > That error comes from the libsvn_repos layer of Subversion but would > only be produced by Subversion older than 1.4. Your claim to be running > 1.4 is probably incorrect, what does "svnadmin --version" show? > > You may have more than one version of Subversion installed on the old > server. If you can find and use a more recent version you should be > able to access the repository. > > Alternatively, you do not need to dump/load to move servers. If the > repository on the old server is not live then you could simply copy it > to the new server. Subversion 1.7 will be able to read/write the copied > repository. > > -- > Philip >
