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Migrating from VisualSVN on windows to linux based svn

I'd like to migrate my svn repository from my local computer running windows and VisualSVN 2.1.2 to an svn app on webfaction (my Linux hosting solution).

Initially I tried dumping the svn:

svnadmin dump path_to_repository > dumpfile_name

and loading it on the Linux machine

svnadmin load dumpfile_name

I received the following error:

svnadmin: Can't open file 'dumpfile_path_and_name/format': Not a directory

I found that on my Windows machine I do have a format folder under the repository. So I copied the entire repository to the Linux machine and tried:

svnadmin load path_to_repository_copy

I received the following error:

svnadmin: Expected FS format between '1' and '3'; found format '4'

what should I do?

Solution

  • The syntax for svnadmin load should be

    svnadmin load /path/to/repository < dumpfile

    See here