[ale] Migrating CVS

[audilover at atlantabroadband.com (Ray Knight)]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:24, John Mills wrote:
> Hi, Matthew -
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Matthew Brown wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone here ver migrated a cvsrep from one server to another?  How
> > to do it?
> 
> I migrated a full source tree from MKS 'Source Integrity'/MsWin to
> CVS/Linux, then updated and reformed the CVS version a couple of times. I
> managed to preserve the histories of most files (c. 920 out of 1000 came 
> through OK). CVS to CVS should be much simpler.
> 
> If it's a matter of keeping multiple repositories in synch, look into 
> 'rsync'.
> 

CVSup at http://www.cvsup.org was designed for this.  It makes use of
rsync, but understands CVS so can be more efficient.  I believe it could
prove especially useful for migrating a repository.

> I also used 'cpio' to produce a rolling backup of the CVS repository and
> recovered from that backup, which I expect would do a migration just as
> well. You either need to shut down access for the duration of the 
> transplant, or (what I did) treat all work done during the transplant time 
> as a "one-time" updated in the new repository. ('rsync' avoids this 
> problem by locking directories individually as it copies them out.)
> 
> Let me know if you need any help.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 

-- 
Ray Knight <audilover at atlantabroadband.com>