<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svnadmin upgrade</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html" title="svnadmin Reference—Subversion Repository Administration" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.unlock.html" title="svnadmin unlock" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.verify.html" title="svnadmin verify" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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As such, the upgrade performs only the minimum amount of work needed to accomplish this while still maintaining the integrity of the repository. While a dump and subsequent load guarantee the most optimized repository state, <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin upgrade</strong></span> does not.</p> <div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <table border="0" summary="Warning"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"> <img alt="[Warning]" src="images/warning.png" /> </td> <th align="left">Warning</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p>You should <span class="emphasis"><em>always</em></span> back up your repository before upgrading.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm14189"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <p>None</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm14192"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>Upgrade the repository at path <code class="filename">/var/repos/svn</code>:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svnadmin upgrade /var/repos/svn Repository lock acquired. Please wait; upgrading the repository may take some time... 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