TortoiseSVN, how to dump a repository?

Question

I use Windows 7 and also I use TortoiseSVN to keep track of my code, now I want to migrate my repository to a cloud-service and the requirement is create a *.dump file, but I can't find a way to create it. Some forums say to use "svnadmin" but I can't find it also.

My question is how can I create a *.dump file with TortoiseSVN?

Answer 1

Subversion 1.7 now has the svnrdump command line utility.

svnrdump dump https://host/repo > repo.dump

Note that this always creates a dump with deltas, which might not be what you want.

Answer 2

TortoiseSVN ships the svnadmin utility with it. It is a command line utillity. So you will have to create a dump of your repository in the command line.

To create a dump of your repository, use

svnadmin dump C:\SVN\MyProject > C:\tmp\MyProject.dump

where C:\SVN\MyProject is the path to your SVN repo and C:\tmp\MyProject.dump is the path to the dump file, which will be created.

To import your previously made dump file into a new repository, use

svnadmin load C:\SVN\MyProject < C:\tmp\MyProject.dump

where C:\SVN\MyProject is the path to your new SVN repo and C:\tmp\MyProject.dump is the path to the dump file, which should be imported.