backup-svn.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Makes a full gzipped dump of a repote SVN repository.
# You must have installed subversion >= 1.7.
set -e

svn_repo=$1

if [ "X$svn_repo" = "X" ]; then
  echo "You must supply the svn path"
  exit 1
fi

backup_dir=/opt/backups-svn
when=$(date +%F)
where=$backup_dir/$when
# We are not checking if it's a valid repo...
svn_root=$(svn info $svn_repo | grep "^Repository Root" | cut -d" " -f3)
svn_name=$(basename $svn_root)
svn_tree=$(basename $svn_repo)

if [ "X$svn_name" = "X$svn_tree" ]; then
  file_name=$svn_name
else
  file_name="$svn_name-$svn_tree"
fi

# Where the backup is saved
mkdir -p $where

svnrdump dump $svn_repo | gzip > $where/$file_name.dump.gzip