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Contents 1 Introduction 2 One Time Backup or Restore 2.1 Using the Console 3 Automatic Backup

Introduction

This article will show you how to backup and restore your Subversion repository.

One Time Backup or Restore

Login to your SVN / Trac control panel and click SVN repositories under the Services tab on the left hand menu. You will see a list of your Subversion repositories. Click the "Dump" button next to your repository to download a backup file. You can also click "Load" to restore a backup file.

Using the Console

Establish an SSH connection to your designated SVN / Trac server and login with the same username and password you use to obtain access to the SVN / Trac control panel. Once in, run:

svnadmin dump ~/svn/repo_name > repo_name.svn.dump

Replace repo_name with your repository name. This will backup your repository into a file called repo_name.svn.dump. You can then restore a Subversion backup with:

svnadmin load ~/svn/repo_name < repo_name.svn.dump

Automatic Backup

Establish an SSH connection to your designated SVN / Trac server and login with the same username and password you use to obtain access to the SVN / Trac control panel. Once in, run:

crontab -e 

This will open up an editor (most likely nano) and allow you to enter in a cron job to automatically prepare a backup dump of your repository. Put the command:

@daily svnadmin dump ~/svn/repo_name > repo_name.svn.dump

at the end of the file (replacing repo_name with your repository name), save, and exit (Use CTRL+X with nano to save and exit, then follow the prompts).

You can replace @daily with @weekly if you prefer.