Hi, I am attempting to migrate a modest project from VSS to SVN.
- Our VSS database DATA folder is approximately 40GB in size.
- I am using DESTROY to strip away all but the target project
(overnight),
- then ANALYZE (at least 20 hours)
- and vss2svn.pl to convert.
However, vss2s
VSS corrupts often. However, the latest version of the source it does well
with. What corrupts are the history records and the versions you pull out of
history and I have seen this first hand on many instances. The analyze tool
really is finding data that is lost, so VSS is a horrible tool to ma
Well I ran the tool sometime back so you will have to see if it has any
filtering options. I believe the "official" story is to export everything then
use svnadmin dump and filter that using the standard SVN ways. It was not
recommended in the documentation, but I have done a partial backup and
Jason, thanks a lot for your knowledgeshare. I will try a few different
things and see what might work. Perhaps I'll try to run the script on the
whole 40GB. Does 40GB sound like an inordinately massive project? I've
seen messages on this list saying that 10GB is large. If we've been
building
David, if you want to keep the topic on the list remember to continue to
include vss2svn users e-mail.
40GB sounds huge to me. I hear people speak of repositories that large, and I
don't know how it gets that way. Probably because we only use it to do source
code. I converted a repository some
thanks, my last note was meant just to thank you, but then a question
slipped in... ; )
I would _love_ to run the conversion on Linux, which I'm sure you're right
is much faster. Is it possible then to just copy the VSS repo to a Linux
box and get a Linux version of ssphys.exe? Would ssphys have
Yes I copied the VSS repo over. ssphys is what reads it. However, there is no
prebuilt. I might be able to send you a copy, but what I had to do is compile
vss2svn completely from source. There are instructions on the wiki on how to
do this. Since the version I built, there are probably patches
