SVN Server Maintain -- Basics

Records of commanly used svn commands.

1. Create SVN server:

a. Install package.

yum install subversion

b. Create directory:

mkdir /var/svn

c. Create repository:

svnadmin create /var/svn/test0

d. Edit /var/svn/conf/{passwd, authz,svnserve.conf}

passwd: add user=password in [user] block.

authz: add [/] and user=rw.

svnserve.conf: uncomment  anon-access, password-db, authz-db, realm . These values could be changed according to the real commands.

2. SVN repository backup

a. Dump all version of repository test0:

svnadmin dump /var/svn/test0 > /tmp/test0.dmp

b. Dump selected version of repository test0:

svnadmin dump /var/svn/test0 -r ver1:ver2 > /tmp/test0_ver1_ver2.dmp

c. Dump incrementally

svnadmin dump /var/svn/test0 -r 0:ver1 > /tmp/test0_0_ver1.dmp

svnadmin dump /var/svn/test0 -r ver1:ver2 --incremental > /tmp/test0_ver1_ver2.dmp 

3. Recover

svnadmin load /var/svn/test1 < /tmp/test0_0_ver1.dmp

svnadmin load /var/svn/test1 < /tmp/test0_ver1_ver2.dmp