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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 dump in Cygwin

I'm trying to write a script in Cygwin to backup our SVN repositories nightly. The first stumbling block I found is that the svnadmin doesn't seem to work quite right within the cygwin bash shell. My repositories are in C:\Repositories Doing the…
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What is the maximum size for svnadmin dump cmd can create

I have svn repository which is larger than 10 GB in size. The svn running is SVN 1.6 on the server.I have migrate to SVN 1.9 using dump and load. Has anyone created the dumpfile for repository size more than 10 GB. If SVNADMIN dump/load does not…
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Errors migrating subversion repository

I'm having trouble migrating repositories from an old server running Ubuntu 12.04 to a new server running FreeNAS 9.3 (BSD-based) using the svnadmin dump and load commands. When I try to load the repositories, I get E200029 errors about not being…
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svnadmin load error: svnadmin: E160006: No such revision

I am new to SVN and am performing a SVN repository to repository migration. I need to exclude a folder from source repository dump file. For that I used the following svndumpfilter command. svndumpfilter exclude foldername…
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SVN Dump/reload specific version with history

I have an SVN repo on a file server (which I know is not the best practice) and one of the latest revisions is corrupted. I copied my repo locally and the path is C:\SVNLOCAL\SVNRepos. The corrupt commit is r 1070. I did a dump of my repo with…
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How to restrict the number of history kept by svn?

For example, I only want 3 records of a certain branch or item. Thank you very much! Update: Thanks for you guys' answer. Maybe it is not a good question. I have one framework repo and several projects referencing the framework. I usually keep…
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svnadmin load error -> loads first revisions again

I running a svn server on Ubuntu 12.04 and made a svn backup via: svnadmin dump ./backup/repo > repo.dump Now I tried to restore it and made a new repo via: svnadmin create repo svnadmin load ./repo < ./backup/repo.dump But after revision 83 it…
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how do i restart a svnadmin load from a revision

I have a dump file that I was loading when my connection to the server was terminated and the load stopped. I was able to go into the new repository and see what the last revision was. From what I have read, which is very little, it appears that I…
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How can I test my svnadmin verify code?

I'd like to start using svnadmin verify to verify that my svn hotcopies aren't corrupted. My goal is to use a CRON job to run a verify nightly, and send myself an e-mail if there's a problem. If there isn't a problem, I can see that the verify…
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Impact of deleting/moving a folder in svn repo on svn dump and load

I have a folder A in svn-repo with multiple projects in it. Now i want to move some of the projects from this folder to another folder B. I use the svn move command to accomplish this. Now the folder A is not needed in the repository. So i want to…
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how to take svndump of a proejct from a very large repo

We have repository with project specific branches and tags.Just a snapshot of my repo here : Project Code =====>>branches ---- R1 ---- R2 ---- R3 =====>> tags --- R1_tag --- R2_tag Project Database =======>> Branches ---- R1 ----…
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Combine parallel commits on different SVN servers

I'm pretty sure this can't be done, but wanted to see if anyone else had any suggestions. During a migration to a new server, I dumped the repository from our old server and loaded it successfully. Started making commits to the new server, no…
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Which tools generate a repository dump with leading slashes in path headers?

SVNBook tells that a repository dump generated with svnadmin dump never includes leading slashes in Node-path and Node-copyfrom-path headers. It also tells that some 3-rd party tools (scripts?) can generate Subversion repository dumps with leading…
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Reordering subversion repository fails

I want to reorder a subversion repository; for this I use svnadmin dump, svnadmin load, svndumpfilter and sed. For example, I want to "move" the following directory (in fact, it's much more but I do it step by step now): project1/common/bib ->…
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svndumpfilter for subversion > 1.7

I got the dump file of my repository from xp-dev using their import & export > Download Repository Dump File Then I tried to delete some file from path from all revisions with svndumpformat: :~/fixingsize$ svndumpfilter exclude…
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