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Joe
Joe

Reputation: 91

rebuild subversion repository after server failure

I had an old SVN repo running on a Windows server 2003 with VisualSVN Server - the absolute path to the repo was stored on a NAS where it was backed up - however not using svnadmin /dump. That 2003 server was decomissioned without dumping the repo, and now I need to get back to some of that codebase!

I still have the entact directory tree for the repo, and have built a new SVN server running on CentOS (and verified that it's working). What is the best way to get projects out of the old repo into new source control? If I lose history that's ok - I just need to get back to the 'current' files....and I can't use svnadmin /load (at least I don't think that will work)

Is it as easy as copying the dirtree into the new repo and using svnadmin /setuuid ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2070

Answers (1)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 91

I got it - just thought I would post the answer for anyone else with the same problem.

I copied the root of my repository to the SVN root on my new server and ran svnadmin recover <reponame> and tada....I have my repos back.

I hope this helps anyone else in the same situation.

Upvotes: 5

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