Copy SVN Repository

Question

I have an SVN repo at a hosted SVN service which I need to move to our locally hosted SVN service. The host offers an export feature, which I've used. But how do I take that exported file and import it into a new repository?

EDIT

I tried using svnadmin load, but got an error message:

% svnadmin load . < ~/ss2_14066_rev36
svnadmin: Malformed dumpfile header

The service I'm exporting from is http://beanstalkapp.com, and their help page for export says this exported file can be reimported to another svn server. Is this possibly a server version mismatch?

Solution 1

If the export was created using svnadmin dump you can import it into a new, empty repository using

# cd /path/to/new/repo
# svnadmin load . < /path/to/dumpfile

Solution 2

If your hosting provider uses Subversion 1.4 or later you can also use svnsync to create a copy from the repository.

See The Subversion Book for more details.

Solution 3

Is it possible that it's not a dumpfile but rather a tar.gz of the repository itself?

Comments

[Bombe]

Yeah, if svnadmin doesn’t like it you should check back with your hosting service about what you’re supposed to do with the file.

[markus]

svn dump files are delicate things. make sure it's not been edited with a text editor or any other programm for the matter.

[johnnieb]

@Ian If the dump file is zipped, unzip it and then run the load command