Question

I currently have a SVN repository on a server that is low in available disk space. I thus would like to migrate this SVN repository to a new server. Usually I would use the following command:

svnadmin dump /path/to/somerepository > somerepository.svn.backup

However, as mentioned above, I am very low on disk space and I would like to store the dump of my new server by streaming the stdout of the svnadmin dump process to the new server. What would be the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Use a couple of netcat commands to “stream” the dump away:

old server: start netcat in server mode, piped to svnadmin

svnadmin dump /path/to/somerepository | nc -q 10 -l -p 6666

new server: connect to other netcat instance and save stream on file

nc -w 10 oldserver 6666 > somerepository.svn.backup