SVN Backup Script & Restore dump

I am using SVN Server and several repositories have been created under “/home/repositories/” directory. I will use below script to take all SVN repositories backup on local system under “/SVN_Backup” path.

Please find below the script for SVN repositories backup.

[root@svn02 ~]# cat /scripts/svn_backup

#!/bin/bash

# Record today’s day of week and Hour

# ---------------------------------------

bakdate=$(date +%A_%H)

echo "--------------------------------"

echo "Running SVN backup $bakdate"

echo "--------------------------------\n"

# From where to backup repos?

# ---------------------------------------

svnrepos="/home/repositories/"

echo "\nGoing to backup all SVN repos located at: $svnrepos \n"

# Where to save the dump?

# -----------------------------------------

bakdest="/SVN_Backup"

# _________NO-COFIG-REQUIRED-BELOW-THIS-LINE___________

# First go to SVN repo folder

cd $svnrepos

# Just make sure we have write access to backup-folder

if [ -d "$bakdest" ] && [ -w "$bakdest" ] ; then

  # Now $repo has folder names = project names

  for repo in *

     do

    # do svn dump for each project

    echo "Taking backup/svndump for: $repo"

    echo "Executing : svnadmin dump $repo > $bakdest/$repo-$bakdate.svn.dump \n"

    # Now finally execute the backup

    /usr/bin/svnadmin dump $repo > $bakdest/$repo-$bakdate.svn.dump

    # You can go an extra mile by applying tar-gz compression to svn-dumps

    gzip $bakdest/$repo-$bakdate.svn.dump

  done

else

  echo "Unable to continue SVN backup process."

  echo "$bakdest is *NOT* a directory or you do not have write permission."

fi

# End of backup script

echo "\n\n================================="

echo " - Backup Complete, THANK YOU :-]"

We can schedule the backup script once a day in cron job.

[root@svn02 ~]# crontab -e

00 02 * * * /scripts/svn_backup




2. Restore DUMP of subversion (SVN) Repository.

svnadmin create /path/to/repo_name

svnadmin load /path/to/repo_name < path/to/repo_name.dmp