Export SVN repository

At first it seems quite forward to do this, but I have ran into the issue of encoding problems. And trying to get a huge (40G) dumpfile into the container.

What did work for me:

1. Have a bind path in your container, to manage the large file

2. Use the container and dump the file into this path

svnrdump  dump -r0:HEAD [URL_TO_YOUR_REPO] > Your_dumpfile.dmp

This will show the progress as follows:

svnadmin load /path/yourrepo < /path/your/dum.dmp

What didn't work for me:

This is the official documentation :  dump your SVN   

svnadmin dump /path/to/your/old/repo > backup.dump
svnadmin load /path/to/your/new/repo < backup.dump.dmp

If you redirect the input to your host, it circumvents the large file in the docker. 

cd /tmp
docker exec -it edf77623c9207 svnadmin dump /home/svn/YourRepository > YourRepository_svn.dmp

But importing it back, an error is produced:

' into a number04: Could not convert ' 2