Migrating from VisualSVN on windows to linux based svn

Jonathan picture Jonathan · May 27, 2010 · Viewed 9k times · Source

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?

Answer

Joril picture Joril · May 27, 2010

The syntax for svnadmin load should be

svnadmin load /path/to/repository < dumpfile

See here