How to duplicate a subversion repo without filesystem access?

Question

I'd like to know if there is an easy way to duplicate a subversion repository without having access to the filesystem. Meaning that I have read-only access with the HTTP interface.

Basically, I'd like to have my own locally-hosted copy of a repository for an open-source project. They provide anonymous access to the subversion repo as usual.

I've looked through the docs, and I guess my Google-fu is good enough because I couldn't find any reference to doing something like this.

So basically I want to download all the revisions, and be able to import them into my own repo using svnadmin.

Answer 1

svnadmin dump

Answer 2

I think you're wanting svnsync:

svnadmin create /localsvn
svnsync init file:///localsvn http://domain/svn
synsync sync file:///localsvn

You'll have to enable the pre-revprop-change hook in your local repository or svnsync will complain.

But, just repeat the last command as necessary.

Note that svnsync commands require URL arguments.