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As a system admin we know the importance of backup. This article will help you to how to Backup and Restore SVN (Subversion) repository on Linux.
Eg 1. Backup (dump) SVN Repository
# svnadmin dump /var/www/svn/myrepo > /backup/svn/myrepo.dump
* Dumped revision 0. * Dumped revision 1. * Dumped revision 2. ....
Eg 2. Compressed Backup (dump) SVN Repository
Following command will take backup of “myrepo” repository and compress it in .gz format.
# svnadmin dump /var/www/svn/myrepo | gzip -9 > /backup/svn/myrepo.dump.gz
Eg 3. Restore (load) SVN Repository
Below example will help you to restore repository from a backup file. For this example we are creating new repository to restore dump.
Create a new repository
# svnadmin create /var/www/svn/mynewrepo
Restore dump to newly created repository
# svnadmin load /var/www/svn/mynewrepo < /backup/svn/myrepo.dump
<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1 * adding path : svn-auth-screen.PNG ... done. * adding path : template.txt ... done. ------- Committed revision 1 >>> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 2 * adding path : file1.txt ... done. * adding path : file2.txt ... done. ------- Committed revision 2 >>>