How to move SVN repository in hard disk

Question

I have an SVN repository on my hard disk in a directory like:

/home/Desktop/path/to/old_repo

But I need to move this repository to another place

/home/Downloads/path/to/new_repo

an remove all the files in the old directory. I tried using svnadmin dump, then svn create and svn load, but when I remove the old_repo folder they stop working. In fact, they do not contain any piece of code and just give me some information about log and status.

How can I move this repository to a completely different location having it work independently (I want to remove the old one)?

possible duplicate of [Subversion - Move Repository](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/360758/subversion-move-repository) — bahrep, Apr 16 '14 at 12:35
@bahrep I explained in my question that I have tried that one, even I have an answer in the question that you are referring to — orezvani, Apr 16 '14 at 12:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 16 '14 at 13:19

Step 1. Stop all services and anything that might write to the repository.

Step 2. Copy (as in OS cp or drag and drop folder) the repository directory to the new location.

Step 3: Update the service's configuration to refer to the new repository (eg Apache conf, svnserver conf or VisualSVN GUI).

Step 4: restart the service and let people carry on using it.

There's nothing special about a SVN server repository, its a self-contained directory with normal files in it. There's no registry or /etc conf files that need updating. YTou do need to update whatever access system you use to get at it (eg http or svn protocols go through a server, either apache or svnserve) so you need to tell them the new location, but that's it.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 16 '14 at 12:50

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If you use file:/// access to repository, you can

Move directory to new location
Relocate all Working Copy in order to reflect new URL

If you use any network-type access (svn:// or http://) to repository, you can

Move directory to new location
Change settings of used daemon in order to reflect new physical location of repository

answered Apr 16 '14 at 12:50

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I'm on the file service. Should I `svn copy` or just copy that working directory? – orezvani Apr 16 '14 at 12:56
relocate isn't a command, I used it as an option for copy but it didn't work – orezvani Apr 16 '14 at 13:03
I got it, I did not MOVE the main repository, I always copied the directory to another location, because I was afraid to loose data ;) – orezvani Apr 16 '14 at 13:10

How to move SVN repository in hard disk

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