Abstract levels container

Whole process looks very simple: grab VSS, produce text file, run SVN and consume produced file.

1. Download and install (unpack) vss2svn
2. Run vss2svn.exe

   vss2svn.exe --vssdir \\vss\repository\path

3. That will produce

   vss2svn-dumpfile.txt

   file which will be consume by svnadmin

4. [Optional]: compress and send vss2svn-dumpfile.txt file. I’m using 7-zip:

   "{PathTo7-Zip}\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%DATE% vss2svn-dumpfile.7z" "vss2svn-dumpfile.txt" -t7z -mx9 -aoa

5. Run svnadmin, use vss2svn-dumpfile.txt

   "{PathToSVN Server}\VisualSVN Server\bin\svnadmin" load "E:\SVN Repositories\BackupVSS" < "vss2svn-dumpfile.txt"

6. And thats it.

Whole script might look like this:

E:
CD E:\Vss2Svn\
vss2svn.exe --vssdir \\vss\repository\path
 
:: ### Optional compression, you might do this if you want send file somewhere else ###
"C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%DATE% vss2svn-dumpfile.7z" "vss2svn-dumpfile.txt" -t7z -mx9 -aoa
 
:: ### SVNAdmin ###
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualSVN Server\bin\svnadmin" load "E:\SVN Repositories\BackupVSS" < "vss2svn-dumpfile.txt"

Tools HowTo, Subversion, SVN, Visual Source Save, VSS