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Following this as a guide: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33055/what-is-the-best-way-to-backup-subversion-repositories

I've tried the following commmands:

svnadmin hotcopy "C:\Repositories" > "C:\BackupSVN"

svnadmin hotcopy "C:\Repositories\*" > "C:\BackupSVN"

svnadmin hotcopy "C:\Repositories\TestRepo1" > "C:\BackupSVN"

However all 3 commands result in "Access is denied"

I've tried them at an "Administrator" command prompt as well, still the same error.

SO:

How can I properly run an svnadmin hotcopy command (or even svnadmin dump) on a Windows 2012 server? What am I missing?

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Grrr...I figured it out. Stupid default UAC on Windows 2012.

Deactivating UAC in Windows 2008 R2 was possible via running msconfig (for example winkey+r -> msconfig), going to the Tools tab and launching "Change UAC settings". There, you select "Never notify" to disable UAC. The same approach is still available in Windows Server 2012, though UAC is still active after you selected "Never notify". You have the option to turn off UAC via registry by changing the DWORD "EnableLUA" from 1 to 0 in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system". You will get a notification that a reboot is required. After the reboot, UAC is disabled.

UAC dialog

UAC regedit

CREDIT: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13953.windows-server-2012-deactivating-uac.aspx

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  • What is UAC and how did you solved the UAC? – Syed Haider Hassan May 06 '13 at 11:42
  • @SyedHaiderHassan - I'll update my answer with details. – TheCleaner May 06 '13 at 13:08
  • @AlbertoSpelta - not sure what you are talking about. This question was about getting the command to run properly (which I did), not about what "hotcopy" does. Not sure why you even posted a comment here. – TheCleaner Jan 02 '14 at 17:25
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    Alternatively you can just run the "svnadmin hotcopy" as Administrator (run it from cmd.exe or PowerShell that was run as Administrator). Disabling UAC is pretty drastic IMO. – dangph Oct 21 '15 at 06:45