Repository content (files/directories) not showing at new location on svn dump and load

Question

I want to move my repo to new server. My repo contains multiple files. To move I have created a repository dump file with command

$svnadmin dump file:///repo/path > file.dump

copied dump file to new server and loaded the dump file in new repository with command

$svnadmin load file:///new/repo/path < file.dump

It successfully loaded the file with log

<<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 1
------- Committed new rev 1 (loaded from original rev 1) >>>

I am not able to see files and folders which I have loaded from dump file at new repository location. Please help if I am missing anything.

Answer 1

First and foremost, the commands you've specified should not work. You have to specify full local path to repository and not use file:// access. svnadmin is an admin tool that requires local and full access the repository and it does not accept URLs.

The commands should be

• svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > file.dump

• svnadmin load /path/to/new/repository < file.dump

After loading the dump, use Subversion client and run svn log to check the revision history in the new repository.

With svn log, you must enter URL to the repository. In case you plan to check the log locally, specify file://path/to/new/repository.