How to migrate SVN repository?

There are only few easy steps to migrate svn repository. This post is for my own notes, in case i forget how to migrate svn repository again!

Below is the steps to migrate SVN repository:-

• Start your terminal

• $ svnadmin dump /path/to/your/repo > yourreporname.dump

• $ scp yourreponame.dump username@new.machine.ip:/path/to/your/new/repo 

  This steps is to transfer your dump file to your new machine. You will prompt to enter password for the new machine.

• Now your SVN dump file should be in new machine
• Login to your new machine

• cd /path/to/your/new/repo

• svnadmin create reponame

• svnadmin load reponame < yourreponame.dump

• Done, you just just migrated your svn repository

* If you dump file is too big for transfer, you can compress it using tar before sending over thru network.
Tar command for compress:

tar -zcf yourreponame.tgz yourreponame.dump 

Tar command for uncompress:

tar -zxf yourreporname.tgz 

Tags: backup svn, migrate svn, software versioning, svn, svn migration, svnadmin dump, svnadmin load

Posted at July 20th, 2008 by chua

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