On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:52:58 -0600, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <subversion-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>On Dec 27, 2024, at 15:44, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >> Well there are 11 repositories totalling 18.8 GB in size >> So a full backup is not a simple task, also regarding disk space on the >> virtualized server. Don't know how much disk it actually has. > >You could do a trial run on a local machine instead of the server. I can't do that since I don't have another Windows machine with a Subversion server... All my other devices except my laptop are Linux boxes. The Windows Server 2016 runs VisualSVN 3.7 and it uses svn version 1.9.7 (r1800392) I know that there are upgrades but I have never understood how to do the upgrade while protecting our data. And now it is a really long step from where we are to the current version.... Another question: ----------------- Can I use the direct svn commands in a command prompt window (using cmd.exe) to load dump files while the VisualSvn service is stopped? I have stopped the service so that no accidental commits can be done before the repositories are up-to-date as per Dec 6th. Now at July from the old computer backup. And I can still use the svn command line program. NEW TESTING IDEA? ----------------- Is it possible to do an in place "clone" of one of my smaller repositories with missing changes to a separate repo which has all the same content but a different name? If the *repo name* is part of the dumpfile *content* so it must be applied to the same name repository then this would not work of course... If the dump file I have for the original repository *can* be used on the clone instead with the suggested commands in a cmd window then I can do a real test before I touch the actual repositories... In that case what would be the best approach to copy the repository? Can I issue a copy command on the command line for the repository top directory to a new directory name or do I have to do something else? Will windows copy the full content inside the directory if I do this: copy source_repo_directory_name new_repo_name -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
