Migration of SVN to newer Version

The article covers following thing:

1. Creation of subversion database dump whose migration need to be done
2. Creation of repository on new subversion
3. Importing the dump of the older subversion into newer subversion
4. Setting the commit notification of svn branches
5. Log Message setting

Step 1: Backup your old Repository

The first thing you need when moving from one server to another is a dump of your subversion repository. Hopefully you are already creating dump's with a backup script, but if not here's how you can create a subversion dump file:

svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repo_name.svn_dump

The dump file contains all the revisions you have ever made to your svn repository, so it will probably be quite large (it even includes files you may have deleted in a previous revision).

Step 2: Create the new Repository

Now, simply transfer the dump file on to your new subversion server, and create an empty repository:

svnadmin create /path/to/repository

Step 3: Import your old repository into the new one

Next import your dump file:

svnadmin load /path/to/repository <>