I need to migrate a very large number of repositories to a remote server and am wondering whether svnadmin dump or svnadmin hotcopy is the right tool for the job the svn versions would be the same for both servers, however most of the repositories are currently stored on a windows share, whereas the new server will be linuxbased. Why the svn local working copy still download the directory which has no access right. Would you suggest that i can take hotcopy, if so how much time would it take. Tortoisesvn commands that are not in the submenu have svn prepended. It is provided as an eclipse plugin, and it supports remote user and repository management. Obviously not the fault of aptget for example, downloading java isnt aptget install java. It makes me very happy to hear that you understand the issue. First it deletes old backups, then for each repository it makes a hot copy, makes a tared copy of the hot copy on a mounted drive, then removed the untarred hot copy. Like some others, i installed using a binary installer martin otts wonderful mac os x package for subversion1. If youre really paranoid, backup the configuration data from the copy of your repository.
Target of the project is to simplify access right management of a subversion server running with webdav on apache2. Oct 25, 2012 hi james, we have a huge subversion repository of 287 gb, that runs on apache. How do i hotcopy a svn repository to an existing location. I based this on a few examples that are floating around, but i cant recall where the examples came from. I am new to subversion, but i have already starting to like it. Svnadmin is a subversion administration tool for eclipse. The recommended method is to run svnadmin hotcopy pathtorepository pathtobackup to create a copy of your repository in a safe manner. If nothing happens, download github desktop and try again. The format of the file created by svnadmin dump is independent of repository backend type or schema version, which means that you can use. Subversion users how to restore from a svnadmin hotcopy.
Use the hotcopy script to make a duplicate of your repository. Subversion svn is a version control software that allows users to download the very latest version of a branch, without having to wait for someone to get. To restore a repository you can just svn hotcopy your backup to the place from which you want to serve it. Hi, how can i dump a repository which i can only access via an url. Extract the zip archive and copy the complete svnadmin folder to your web folder. Just download the program and install it as any other windows program. You can run this command at any time and make a safe copy of the repository, regardless of whether other processes are using the repository. As the first step, download our local copy of tortoisesvn and install in your machine. We need to migrate that to other server with different version of subversion. A jsf based webapplications which let subversion user change their password by themself and let the subversion admin add and delete users from any subversion repository. Unlike hotcopy backups, these can efficiently be backed up via rsync or duplicity and can be done while the repository is in use.
I have checked to see if i need to update tortoise svn, but it doesnt look like it, although my next step is going to be to download, and recheck out. My script assumes svnadmin is in the path and that 7zip is installed. The application requires fullaccess to its own data folder. An addition to the script could be to concider keeping the previous hotcopy while producing a new one hot copy history. Read the section called exporting a subversion working copy to find out how to do that. Given that windows explorer, even on vista, often leaves empty folders behind when deleting large trees, you get credits for being way ahead of the pack. Powershell hot copy backup of subversion repositories. May 14, 2010 my script assumes svnadmin is in the path and that 7zip is installed.
When copying multiple sources, add the copies as immediate children of dst which, of. Incremental hotcopy mode is supported for fsfs repositories only. Include functions such as repository creation, permissions setting, backup and so on. This means that the exported copy can be used by any version of svn. Also, after the hotcopy is complete should i do an rsynch to new server and svnsynch. This script allows you to make incremental backups of a svn repository. Make sure you get these files from the main distribution directory, rather than from a mirror. Svnadmin is an eclipse plugin design to be a subversion administration tool. If you pass the cleanlogs option, svnadmin will perform a hot copy of your repository, and then remove unused berkeley db logs from the original repository. Hi james, we have a huge subversion repository of 287 gb, that runs on apache.
To obtain a working copy you need to do a checkout from a repository. The second way of changing a log message is to use svnadmin setlog. It also fails to backup things like the repository scripts and a few other things. Which configuration data you have depends on your access. Its fast, but the copy is a complete operational repository, which means that you can only use it with a server that understands the schema. See for example how to copy svn repository as a folder to another repository with history. Maybe send the tarfiles via scp or rsync to some other machine andor burn them to cddvd. This must be done by referring to the repositorys location on the filesystem. There is one question though that is bothering me i have checked out the subversion documentation, but could not find any specific section about how to restore from the result of a svnadmin hotcopy. Now, you will learn how to commit your working copy. I have felt the svnadmin dumpload even with gzip takes lot of time. Since svnadmin works via direct repository access and thus can only be used on the machine that holds the repository, it refers to the repository with a path, not a url.
To obtain a working copy you need to do a checkout from a repository select a directory in windows explorer where you want to place your working copy. For my repository, this ends up being smaller than the hotcopy. Read a repository dump stream from stdin, committing new revisions into the repositorys filesystem. The date naming of the log file is wrong on my computer, probably due to different local date format. Download a file from an svn repository stack overflow.
This tutorial will show two ways of making a full subversionw repository backup on windows, along with a batch file to put these backups on a separate server when backing up a subversionw repository, its a good idea not to rely on a basic recursive copy command. If you go to github projects, they provide you a link to download the sourcecode. I have subversion repository that contains multiple projects, and now im trying to separate each project into its own repository. Maybe keep the last 5 tarfiles and delete the older ones. Users and groups can be imported out of an ldap directory or added manually.
If you pass the cleanlogs switch, svnadmin will perform a hotcopy of your repository, and then remove unused berkeley db logs from the original repository. Subversion backup of multiple repositories via dos. If your repository is accessed at all during the copy, web browser left open, websvn, etc. Right click to pop up the context menu and select the command tortoisesvn checkout. The downside is it takes a lot longer to generate and uses up a lot more space even compressed with gzip 5. Powershell hot copy backup of subversion repositories pssvnbackup. What i do for svn backups is use svnadmin dump and then compress. The server where the copy is imported needs to be the same version, have the same config etc. It is fast, but it keeps information about the underlying file system etc. The uuid of the hotcopy destination repository must match the uuid of the hotcopy source repository. What i do for svn backups is use svnadmin dump and then compress the output with 7zip. You can also copy the contents of the folder to your web servers virtualhost root directory.
It is not possible to do incremental backups with svnadmin hotcopy. Download svnadmin improve your development with this eclipse plugin. This class offers the same commands as the svnadmin commandline client. Then i have a single file every day that contains the entire repository backup. First download the keys as well as the asc signature file for the particular distribution. If you specify the parent path of the directory tree in the url then you might end.