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One of our virtual machines is down and cannot be restarted. Fortunately, I managed to access to the virtual disk file and got all my data back.

I wonder now if there is a way to retrieve the repository files directly from the file system. I have seen replies with svn admin but I can't use that here.

Thanks

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I don't know what do you want exactly, but the svnadmin dump dumps the repository and can re-use it everywhere:

# dumps the repository svnadmin dump /path_of/svn/repository > svn.dump # maybe with compression svnadmin dump /path_of/svn/repository | bzip2 > svn.dump.bz2 # create repository from file, maybe should create before it cat svn.dump | svnadmin load /path_of/svn/repository

If you want only the files and doesn't need the history, changes, etc., you can checkout:

svn checkout file:///path_of/svn/repository /checkout/directory

See more the help of svnadmin dump and svn checkout.

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  • The usual path of svn is /var/svn/<repo_name> on most linux distribution right ? Commented Dec 4, 2019 at 9:52
  • I think it's depend on distribution - but maybe yes. Commented Dec 4, 2019 at 13:03
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This worked : 

svn checkout file:///path_of/svn/repository /checkout/directory

My repo was located under /var/svn/, I extracted it from the virtual machine disk and then proceeded to checkout.

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