Subversion: Is there anything faster than "svnsync"?

Question

So I have my subversion repository stored on some cloud (for example code.google.com) but due to various reasons I need to make my code non-public.

I decided I needed to download the entire repository and migrate to my own svn server.

So I went about using:

svnsync init DEST SRC
svnsync sync DEST

And it took about 0.5 seconds for each revision of the repo!

Luckily my repo only had like 200 revisions... so a couple of minutes to wait. But what about mature projects that have 200,000 or 2,000,000 revisions!

... 2e6 * 0.5 / 60 / 60 / 24 ~ about 11 days!

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Is there anything faster than "svnsync" to download your repo from a cloud?

Answer 1

Well, obviously you could back it up yourself on the server and then zip it and download it. Or you could just not download all the history.

But what's the point of this question? It's a bit academic, as your problem is solved.