Re: [tlug] Moving a Subversion repository to another location

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Ian Wells wrote:

> Not an answer to your question, but I did a large repo dump/undump
> when changing repo formats, and it was pretty painless.  The only
> problem was finding a bit of disk space for the dump to go in.

Just do it directly i.e.

# emerge app-arch/lzop
# ssh root@example.com "emerge app-arch/lzop dev-util/subversion &&
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs newrepos"

# svnadmin dump oldrepos | lzop \
	| ssh -c blowfish root@example.com "lzop -d | svnadmin load newrepos"

Edward