[rancid] Re: Migrating from CVS to SVN on different server

[Lance]

Nice work.
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [rancid]  Migrating from CVS to SVN on different server
> From: Emre Bastuz <info at emre.de>
> Date: Tue, July 31, 2007 1:29 am
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have migrated rancid data from one machine to another and
> while I was at it switched from CVS to SVN.
> 
> For those who need to do something similar I´d like to outline
> the steps taken.
> 
> - I put the CVS data from rancid´s old installation into at tar.gz,
>   moved it over to the new machine an placed it in a folder
>   /tmp/myoldcvs
> 
> - I used cvs2svn to convert the data from group "router":
>   cvs2svn --trunk-only --encoding=utf8 -s /var/svn/rancid-router /tmp/myoldcvs/CVS/router
> 
> - as the svn data already exists now, the command 'rancid-cvs' can not be
>   used to initialize the repository and create further data, needed by
>   rancid. You´ll have to create the needed files manually/copy them from the
>   former installation:
> 
>   BASEDIR=/var/lib/rancid; export BASEDIR
>   OLDDIR=/tmp/myoldcvs; export OLDDIR
>   mkdir $BASEDIR/router
>   cd $BASEDIR/router
>   svn checkout file:///var/svn/rancid-router/trunk .
>   cp $OLDDIR/router/routers.all $BASEDIR/router/
>   cp $OLDDIR/router/routers.down $BASEDIR/router/
>   cp $OLDDIR/router/routers.failed $BASEDIR/router/
>   cp $OLDDIR/router/routers.up $BASEDIR/router/
>   cp $OLDDIR/router/router.db $BASEDIR/router/
>   chown -R rancid:rancid $BASEDIR
>   chown -R rancid /var/svn/rancid-router/
> 
> - I edited rancid.conf to point to the SVN folder and "activated" SVN
>   RCSSYS=svn; export RCSSYS
>   CVSROOT=/var/svn/rancid-router; export CVSROOT
> By the way: for debugging purposes I edited the first line of
> the script 'control_rancid' to include the "-x" option for
> /bin/sh: #! /bin/sh -x
> 
> This will add a lot of information to the rancid logfile.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Emre
> 
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