svnadmin load — Read a “dumpfile-formatted” stream from stdin.
svnadmin load REPOS_PATH
Read a “dumpfile”-formatted stream from stdin, committing new revisions into the repository's filesystem. Send progress feedback to stdout.
--quiet (-q)
--ignore-uuid
--force--uuid
--parent-dir
This shows the beginning of loading a repository from a backup file (made, of course, with svn dump):
$ svnadmin load /usr/local/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 /usr/local/svn/restored < repos-backup
<<< Started new txn, based on original revision 1
* adding path : test ... done.
* adding path : test/a ... done.
…