How To Backup an SVN Server for Windows

Being relatively novice to SVN, I needed to backup a recent installation. I found a couple of great scripts that was described for Linux, however, will work for Windows with additional software that is described in this article.

Dump the repository to a file.

svnadmin dump d:\csvn\data\repositories\myrepository > reponame.svn_dump

Or dump the repository to a compressed file. This requires gzip for Windows.

svnadmin dump d:\csvn\data\repositories\myrepository | gzip > reponame.svn_dump.gz

Or dump the repository to a compressed file. This requires 7-zip for Windows.

svnadmin dump C:\csvn\data\repositories\myrepository | "%ProgramFiles%-Zipz.exe" a -si backup.7z

Alternately, instead of dump, use svnadmin hotcopy REPOS_PATH NEW_REPOS_PATH

svnadmin hotcopy /repos \\backupserver\svncop

To decompress the dump.

gzip -d reponame.svn_dump.gz

To import or restore your dump file.

svnadmin load d:\csvn\data\repositories\myrepository > reponame.svn_dump

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