Backup a SourceForge hosted SVN repository – sf-svn-backup
SourceForge urges their users to backup the code repositories of their projects. As I have several projects hosted with SourceForge, I should do it too. Making the backups isn’t complicated at all, but because it isn’t automated properly, I’ve been lazy with it.
sf-svn-backup was written in order to simply automate the process. The script is pretty simple to use, just pass as the first argument the project name and the script will write down to stdout the dump file.
For example:
sf-svn-backup openyahtzee > openyahtzee.dump
The project name should be it’s UNIX name (e.g. openyahtzee and not Open Yahtzee). Because the script writes the dump file directly to stdout it’s easy to pipe the output first through a compression program such as gzip to create compressed SVN dump files.
Hi Guy, I used your script and is apparently working well, I get a list of all the projects revision in the console and a file. I just have a question. How do you restore the dump file?
Saul
12 May 09 at 00:25
To restore the dump file to a local repository you use
svnadmin load /path/to/repo < dumpfile
See
$ svnadmin help load
for more details.
If you want to restore the repository to SF, as project administrator you have an option to import a dumpfile.
Guy
12 May 09 at 15:38
Thank you very much. I appreciate your script. The dump-restore procedure worked well for me. I have not tried to restore to SF but I’m sure you have. (Ubuntu 9.04 64bit)
Saul
12 May 09 at 17:57
Thanks bunches! That’s exactly what i’ve just been looking for.
Chic
23 Aug 09 at 21:41