Alex Rodriguez » subversion svn backup recovery http://www.alexbr.com/wblog I don't play baseball. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:10:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Subversion Backup and Recovery http://www.alexbr.com/wblog/?p=103 http://www.alexbr.com/wblog/?p=103#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:22:30 +0000 alex http://www.alexbr.com/wblog/?p=103 I wanted to convert one of our production machines from Fedora to Ubuntu server. One of the services this machine was running was subversion.

I both tarred up the repository directory and used ’svnadmin dump’ to backup the repository. I scp’ed both files to another server.

Upon recovery I wanted to use the dump but the dump file became corrupted.

Luckily, there’s an easy way to recover from a repository file backup. I just untarred the repository and used

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svnadmin recover <repo path>

It worked great!

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