On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Repositories cannot be copied between platforms, and without automatic data migration to new repo formats we'll need to do it anyway.
With backup/restore, they definitely can be copied between platforms. If you find that this is not the case, it's a bug.
A repository backup contains the data files and the log files of your repository. The environment files are specific to the machine they were created on and are not backed up, this is the reason why the repository is 'opened with recovery' after a restore.
When copying a repository backup from one machine to the other, you have to compare the endianness between the platforms. If it is the same, the backup copies as is. If it is not the same, the log files cannot be copied and have to be discarded. When discarding the log files, at worst, the last transactions committed since the last checkpoint are lost. The data files are still consistent and usable.
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