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svnadmin is the administrative tool for monitoring and repairing your Subversion repository.

The svnadmin program is the Subversion repository administrator's best friend. Besides providing the ability to create Subversion repositories, this program allows you to perform several maintenance and repair operations on those repositories.

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svnadmin load into an existing directory?

We have been doing a bit of repository hopping at work and, as a kludge, I am trying to rewrite some of the old history into a new repository we will be working in. How can I reload an SVN dumpfile into an existing directory in a repository? I have…
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svn Can't set position pointer in file

I'm having an issue with an svn repository that has been working just fine up to now. I am getting the error svnadmin: Can't set position pointer in file 'repository/db/revs/0/783': Invalid argument for example when I run svnadmin verify Other…
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How do I know which version current svn repository is?

Recently, I made a decision to upgrade my svn repository from v1.5 to v1.6. After I run the upgrading command then I saw the message left in CMD windows. D:\svn>svnadmin upgrade repo Repository lock acquired. Please wait; upgrading the repository…
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problems with svndumpfilter not excluding paths

I am getting strange results from svndumpfilter - I need to obliterate 24 instances of 2 specific files in our repo, scattered amongst many branches. I am running the command as documented like so: e.g. type dumpfile | svndumpfilter exclude…
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svnadmin load error - File already exists

I had a HDD with SVN repositories and it 'died'. Until I managed to recover it, I created new repositories on another HDD and committed all the files to the new repositories starting from revision 1 and losing all history. Now that I have recovered…
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svnadmin load checksum error

I have a SVN dump with some manually modified code in it, an I'm tryng to load the dump back into a repository. The problem is now I have checksum failures for the changed revisions. Is there any way to recalculate the md5 checksums for the entire…
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Migrating part of Subversion repository to new server and repathing

I'm attempting to migrate part of an Subversion repository to a new Subversion server. http://server1/svn/repo1/path1/path2/path3 -> http://server2/svn/repo2/path3 I've created a complete dump via: svnadmin dump repo1 > repo1.dump Filtered the dump…
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SVN dump size: is it possible to reduce it?

I have a huge SVN repository that I need to dump one time per week. The size of the repository is about 66 GB; after the command "svnadmin dump" the size is about 184 GB. Is it possible to reduce the size of the dump, in order to have a safer backup…
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decompression of svn diff data failed

Hi friends, I am working on Visual SVN since last year and i take its backup regularly, but today early morning i am facing a problem while taking backup,when i execute backup script i am getting following error. * Dumped revision 1. * Dumped…
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Subversion E160004 X's root node's predecessor is Y but should be Z

I've inherited a large Subversion Repository (74010 Revisions) and I am trying to perform a dump/load to upgrade the repository to the 1.8 version to take advantage of the space saving features. Before attempting this process I ran svnadmin verify…
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svn: E160043: Expected FS format between '1' and '4'; found format '6'

We get an error when my CLIENT is getting the list of our Subversion SERVER repository, like this; D:\temp>svn list svn://192.168.1.2/d:/svnrepository/r0 svn: E160043: Unable to connect to a repository at URL…
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Does svnadmin pack work on non-upgraded 1.6 repos?

I've been attempting to run svnadmin pack on repos that were originally created with SVN 1.6. However, I see no output to suggest the command is doing anything. Is it the case that shard packing occurs automatically for native 1.6 repos (as opposed…
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SVN Reorganization

I know this question has been asked a few times, which I've found answers for on here and tried, but I can't get this to work, so looking some help. Using VisualSVN Server 2.5.8 on Windows. I originally set up a repository structure as…
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svnadmin load error

I am getting an error when trying to restore a svn repository taken from another machine. The error is svnadmin: Dump stream contains a malformed header (with no ':') at The dump was created on a subversion 1.5 server and I am loading to a new…
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subversion : Moving a particular repository content to another repository (Finally i have to delete old reopository for security reasons)

I want to keep a particular folder with all revisions before deleting the current repository from my system for security reasons (means i don't want other informations of the repository, but a particular folder).. So i am thinking of creating a new…
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