Re: Migrating CVS database and users from NFS to pserver

[Matt Riechers]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> We decided to convert our database from NFS to pserver, we hope our
> database corruption problems with the history will go away.
> 
> What is the best way to migrate the users and the database?

The "database" is just a directory. Are you moving the repository to
another location or machine? If so, you'll just have to move the tree by
hand, otherwise leave it alone. Setting up pserver is the same either
way: <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC29>

> Our first attempt failed since we realized users could not be migrated
> by simply changing their CVSROOT. We discovered that the CVS/Root files
> contained a copy of the path to the database.

You might be able to get away with changing the CVS/Root files, as long
as none of the files on the server have changed. The fool-proof way to
migrate existing sandboxes is to have the users checkout fresh trees
from the server (and then copy any changes to the new tree by hand).

-Matt