View source for Backup and restore or migrate subversion/svn repositories

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from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate

== create the svn backup ==
 svnadmin dump <directory> > dumpfile

=== Example ===
 ls -l /repositories/
 drwxr-x--- 7 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 26  2013 test

Create the dump file
 svnadmin dump /repositories/test/ > svn-test.dump
 * Dumped revision 0.
 * Dumped revision 1.
 * Dumped revision 2.
 * Dumped revision 3.
 * Dumped revision 4. 

 ls -l
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1800 Jul 17 10:59 svn-test.dump

Compress the file
 tar -czf `date +%F`-svn-test.dump.tar.gz svn-test.dump
 ls -l
 total 8
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  631 Jul 17 11:03 2015-07-17-svn-test.dump.tar.gz
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1800 Jul 17 10:59 svn-test.dump

== restore the svn backup into (another) repository ==
 svnadmin load <directory> < dumpfile

=== Example ===
 ls -l /repositories/
 drwxr-x--- 7 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 26  2013 test

Create the new repository
 svnadmin create /repositories/test-2

 ls -l /repositories/
 drwxr-x--- 7 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 26  2013 test
 drwxr-xr-x 6 root     root     4096 Jul 17 11:16 test-2

Correct owner
 chown www-data:www-data -R /repositories/test-2/
 drwxr-x--- 7 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 26  2013 test
 drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 17 11:16 test-2

Correct rights (if you use different user/group, think about the needs)
 chmod -R 770 /repositories/test-2/
 ls -l /repositories/
 drwxr-x--- 7 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 26  2013 test
 drwxrwx--- 6 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 17 11:16 test-2

"Restore" the date into the new repository
 svnadmin load /repositories/test-2/ < svn-test.dump

== give rights to users ==
Do not forget to allow access to the new repository, if you have no idea, take a look here:
http://wiki.andreas-duffner.de/index.php/Svn_via_https