svnadmin load — Read a repository dump stream from stdin.
Read a repository dump stream from stdin, committing new revisions into the repository’s filesystem. Send progress feedback to stdout.
--force-uuid --ignore-uuid --parent-dir --quiet (-q) --use-post-commit-hook --use-pre-commit-hook
This shows the beginning of loading a repository from a backup file (made, of course, with svnadmin dump):
$ svnadmin load /var/svn/restored < repos-backup <<< Started new txn, based on original revision 1 * adding path : test ... done. * adding path : test/a ... done. ...
Or if you want to load into a subdirectory:
$ svnadmin load --parent-dir new/subdir/for/project /var/svn/restored < repos-backup <<< Started new txn, based on original revision 1 * adding path : test ... done. * adding path : test/a ... done. ...