Tuesday, August 19, 2014

SVN Installation, Backup and Restore

Simple installation of svn. It says how to restore a backup and restore it. You can use the backup file to restore whenever svn is installed freshly.

Command to backup Repository:

svnadmin dump "repo location" > "backup file" (do not include quotations)
Example:
c:>svnadmin dump c:\svnrepo > svnbackup_file_name


Command to Restore repository:


svnadmin load "svn location where repo is created" < "svn backup file name"
Example:
c:>svnadmin load c:\svnrepo < svnbackup_file_name