[cvsnt] Re: Recommendations for Moving Servers
Glen Starrett
glen at starretthome.net
Thu Sep 1 04:28:16 BST 2005
Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> [Siegfried Heintze] I'm replacing my old $300 garage sale CVSNT hardware
> with some new hardware. I figure the easiest way to do it is to just use the
> old IP address on the new box and copy the repository files across (after
> installing the latest CVSNT, of course) by just drag and drop with windows
> explorer.
>
> Any comments?
Should work fine. I think there's a wiki article about moving
repositories, but I don't recall the specifics.
>
> Unfortunately, out of naïveté, all my sand boxes use numeric IP addresses. I
> guess in this case, however, that won't be a problem. Correct?
No, just a PITA for you. You can use a bulk file editor to search for
the CVS\Root files in your sandboxes and change them to point to the new
server name. There's also a macro in WinCVS to do that.
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Glen Starrett
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