How to "dump" a svn database?

Question

Hello guys,

I have VisualSVN installed on my personal laptop, and now that I'm leaving the company I would like to make a dump of all SVN repositories, alongside with history, comments,etc.

I store many personal projects in this localserver and I want to keep the history of each project.

Is it possible?

EDIT: you all answered my question - but I can only approve one. thank you all very much.

Answer 1

Look here:

svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH [-r LOWER[:UPPER]] [--incremental]

Answer 2

Yep use hotcopy http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re33.html

Answer 3

Use svnadmin dump. Here's some explanation on this. Like in:

svnadmin dump {path-to-repository} > C:\your-repository.svn-dump

Answer 4

Yes it is, assuming you have admin access to the repository. I've never done this from VisualSVN, but at the command line you would use the command

svnadmin dump

(The usual disclaimers about making sure you are legally allowed to keep a copy of work you did for a company you are leaving applies.)