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Can you use 'svnadmin hotcopy' with a remote SVN repository

Per the SVN documentation (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.hotcopy.html), you can only run svnadmin hotcopy with local repositories.

Is there any way to run this command using a remote SVN repository, using the URL?

I essentially want to make a complete copy of my huge SVN repository (over 6000 versions), including all history, tags, versions etc. and store it on my local machine, completely independent of the remote repository.

Solution

  • Subversion 1.7 introduced svnrdump, a means by which you can create a dumpfile of the repository, remotely. You can then load that dumpfile into a local repository with svnadmin load.