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- Howto backup Subversion and move it to a new machine.
- Back Up Your Data !
- svnadmin dump repo and scp to other machine.
- Do this for each repository you have.
svnadmin dump /path/to/reponame > /tmp/reponame.dump ; scp -rp /tmp/reponame.dump user@server.domain.com:/tmp/
- On other machine install subversion
pacman -Sy subversion
- Make sure you set svnserve in /etc/rc.conf
- Edit the DAEMONS line so it starts on next boot.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond sshd svnserve httpd)
- Create the corrisponding repositories.
- Do this for each repository you have.
svnadmin create /path/to/reponame
- Load svn dump into new repo on new machine.
- Do this for each repository you have.
svnadmin load /path/to/reponame < /tmp/repo1.dump
- Setting Permissions.. CRUCIAL
- This is the most common mistake when moving a svn repo.
- Do this for each repository you have.
chown -R svn:svnusers /path/to/reponame ; chmod -R g+w /path/to/reponame/db/
bash-2.05b# ls -l | grep svn
drwxrwxr-x 7 svn svnusers 512 Apr 27 15:06 reponame1
drwxrwxr-x 7 svn svnusers 512 Apr 27 15:06 reponame2
drwxrwxr-x 7 svn svnusers 512 Apr 27 15:06 reponame3
bash-2.05b# ls -l reponame1/ | egrep -i "db"
drwxrwsr-x 2 svn svnusers 512 Apr 27 15:07 db
bash-2.05b#
- Ok these repos should be allset and ready to rock.. however using svn+ssh:// will not work..
- Note: we have to have a wrapper written for svnserve..
- PLEASE FOLLOW CLOSELY HERE
bash-2.05b# env | egrep "^PATH="
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
bash-2.05b#
- check where the svnserve binary is located:
bash-2.05b# which svnserve
/usr/local/bin/svnserve
bash-2.05b#
- ok our wrapper is going to have to fall in PATH prior to this location.. /sbin is a good place seeing its our 1st exec path on the system as root.
touch /sbin/svnserve ; chmod 755 /sbin/svnserve
- now edit it to look like so:
bash-2.05b# cat /sbin/svnserve
#!/bin/sh
# wrapper script for svnserve
umask 007
/usr/local/bin/svnserve -r /path/to "$@"
bash-2.05b#
- NOTE: see the -r /path/to ?? well this is what makes use of the svn co svn+ssh://server.domain.com:/reponame ( SEE THIS :/reponame ).. this sets root PATH.
- you do not need to do: :/path/to/reponame.... this is the big trick here folks.
- Start svnserve with new wrapper script like so:
/sbin/svnserve -d ( start daemon mode )
bash-2.05b# ps auxww | grep svn
root 66668 0.0 0.1 3608 1868 ?? Is 12:25AM 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/svnserve -r /path/to -d
bash-2.05b#
- we can also check the perms for remote users like this:
cdowns:~ ~$ svn ls svn+ssh://server.domain.com:/reponame
++server.domain.com++
dev/
qa/
release/
cdowns:~ ~$
Thats it !
Extra Docs:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-9-sect-2.2-re-load
http://subversion.tigris.org/