Does an Svn Dump Grab Everything?

Question

I am using the free version of http://unfuddle.com/ for all my svn needs. They allow backing up but I can't find how to import my repositories in.

I see they allow you do use import by using a svn dump file.

Can I import a dump file of my Subversion repository?

You may do the following to load a dump file into a new Subversion repository in your Unfuddle account:

Create the repository in your Unfuddle account. This will ensure that you have an empty repository in which to load your dump file.

Then make note of the repository's URL as you will need this in the steps below. Create a Subversion repository locally using "svnadmin create localrepo" Load your dump file into this repository using "svnadmin load /path/to/localrepo < /path/to/dump" Sync your local repository to your Unfuddle repository. To do this run the following two commands:

svnsync init --username YOURUSERNAME http://SUBDOMAIN.unfuddle.com/svn/SUBDOMAIN_REPOABBREVIATION

file:///path/to/localrepo svnsync sync --username YOURUSERNAME http://SUBDOMAIN.unfuddle.com/svn/SUBDOMAIN_REPOABBREVIATION

Note: you will need to use the actual username, subdomain, and repository abbreviation in the above commands.

If you experience difficulty with this, please email us at support and we will be happy to assist you further.

What I am not sure is will this have all my commits, all my tags and all my branches (so an exact copy of what I am seeing right now in my repository).

Also with the backups what I get they come in this format.

my.project.20120.tar.gz

what extracts to

my.project.20120.tar

what extracts to a folder with alot of these files projectNae.svn.dmp (file type is noted as Crash Dump File).

As these my dump files that I can use with their instructions I posted above?

Answer 1

Svnsync will tranfer all data from (local) repo to (Unfuddle) repo.

But svnsync in no way related to svn dumps and your strange dmp-files (which can be daily (?) incremental (?) dumps of some repo)