title: What are the limitations of svn hotcopy?
body: <p>We are about to upgrade our infrastructure and change the operating system in use (upgrade to RHEL5).</p>
  
  <p>We will also move our SVN repository from our current servers to the new RHEL5 servers, however - I'm not sure how we should do this change. 
  I remember reading once that if I use the hotcopy command, the copy created can only be restored on a machine with the same OS as the OS taking the backup. 
  Is this correct? Will I be able to restore the copy of the repository on the RHEL5 server even if I took the backup on a RHEL4 server?</p>
  
  <p>Also, if we were to also upgrade our SVN server version, would I be able to restore  the copy on a different version of the SVN server taking the backup?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>