Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Name

dump

Synopsis

svnadmin dump repos_path [-r lower[:upper]] [--incremental]

Dump the contents of filesystem to standard output in a dumpfile portable format, sending feedback to standard error. Dump revisions lower rev through upper rev. If no revisions are given, dump all revision trees. If only lower is given, dump that one revision tree.

Options

--incremental

--quiet

--revision rev, -r rev

Examples

Dump your whole repository:

$ svnadmin dump /usr/local/svn/repos
SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 1
Revision-number: 0
* Dumped revision 0.
Prop-content-length: 56
Content-length: 56
...

Incrementally dump a single transaction from your repository:

$ svnadmin dump /usr/local/svn/repos -r 21 --incremental
* Dumped revision 21.
SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 1
Revision-number: 21
Prop-content-length: 101
Content-length: 101
...