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Idris.AH
Idris.AH

Reputation: 420

Can you use 'svnadmin hotcopy' with a remote SVN repository

Per the SVN documentation (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.hotcopy.html), you can only run svnadmin hotcopy with local repositories.

Is there any way to run this command using a remote SVN repository, using the URL?

I essentially want to make a complete copy of my huge SVN repository (over 6000 versions), including all history, tags, versions etc. and store it on my local machine, completely independent of the remote repository.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1777

Answers (2)

Dwaindibbley
Dwaindibbley

Reputation: 17

I tried lots of different methods including svnadmin hotcopy but the best in the end without a doubt was simply svn dump such as this taken from the svn book. svnadmin dump /var/svn/repos > full.dump link here once you have done that pack it up and send it to where you want the repository. I tried pretty much everything else and this was the simplest and the best for me. I seem to remember that it automatically set the UUID which is the unique identification number of your Subversion project. If you want to use it as the original then it needs to be the same UUID, if it is different use the setuuid command such as svnadmin setuuid /var/svn/repos-new 2109a8dd-854f-0410-ad31-d604008985ab http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.setuuid.html

Upvotes: -1

alroc
alroc

Reputation: 28194

Subversion 1.7 introduced svnrdump, a means by which you can create a dumpfile of the repository, remotely. You can then load that dumpfile into a local repository with svnadmin load.

Upvotes: 2

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