One of my clients needs a backup of his svn repository. I see that this is possible using svadmin dump command. I see where the location of the source repository is, but I don't see anything in documentation as to where the actual dump file is located.

I need to know where the dump file is so I can scp or rsync the file to another server for backup.

Thanks!

Blaine

The dump goes to STDOUT (the console display). If you want to pipe the output to a file, use ">".

Wow! Great! Thanks!

I'll give it a shot. I hoped it was that simple, but the doc in subversion was rather sparse.

Thanks again,

Blaine

A related question, I believe. I've seen a couple of references to a problem with the svnadmin dump command and it corrupting commits into the subversion repository when the repository is *live*...

I wouldn't think this is so as don't commits lock the tree? Better safe than sorry. Should I lock out/quiesce the repository before I run svnadmin dump so as to not corrupt the repository? Anyone have any experience with this in subversion?

We have another unrelated code base that uses a commercial program, Perforce, and this is the case. That is, for repository backups to take place using it's own internal dump program, teh repositories need to be in static mode, that is, not in use...

Thanks!

Blaine

Hi

Instead, try "svnadmin hotcopy /path/to/repos /path/to/copy". It works even if someone is using it.

Thanks! I've combined this with tar'ing the repos to a single file and scping it to the new linux svn server!

Thanks again!

Blaine