RestoringFromTheBackup - svnautobackup - How to recover your repository from the backup.

Updated Jun 22, 2008 by doug.hellmann

RestoringFromTheBackup

How to recover your repository from the backup.

The backup format is a compressed svn dump file. To recover it, you can use the bzip2 utility to uncompress it, and svnadmin load (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re36.html) to restore the changes.

Comment by thetoolman, Jul 29, 2008

For the impatient; here is my command:

# un-gzip all dumps (in filestamp time order - tr = Time,Reverse) to std out, svnadmin reads std in gunzip -c ls -tr dump* | svnadmin load /new/svn/repo

Comment by thetoolman, Jul 29, 2008

This time with no stripping!

gunzip -c `ls -tr dump*` | svnadmin load /new/svn/repo

Comment by sseremeth, Sep 23, 2009

for i in `ls -1|sort -t- -k 3 -n`; do gunzip -c $i | svnadmin load /new/svn/repo; done

worked better for me.