moving an SVN repo

• on the source machine:

  svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > repo.dump
  

• transfer the file to the destination machine, then on the destination machine:

  cd /repos/path
  svnadmin create new-repo
  svnadmin load new-repo < repo.dump
  

note: if your repo is mature/large, you'll probably want to add compression along the way

note: if you have more than one repo on the source machine, all in the same folder (/repos/path), you can do:

• on the source machine:

  cd /repos/path
  for i in `ls`; do svnadmin dump $i > $i.dump; done
  tar cfz dumps.tar.gz *.dump
  rm *.dump    # just to clean-up
  

• transfer the dumps.tar.gz to the destination machine, then:

  mkdir /new/repos/path
  cd /new/repos/path
  tar xfz dumps.tar.gz
  for i in `ls *.dump`; do
      svnadmin create `basename $i .dump`;
      svnadmin load `basename $i .dump` < $i;
  done
  rm dumps.tar.gz *.dump    # just to clean-up