How to take Backup and Restore of Tortoise SVN on window? Back SVN Go to Run with Administrator privilege and then type cmd and open command prompt Run the following command svnadmin dump c:\Repositories\RepositoryName > c:\Repositories\svnbackup.dump Here c:\Repositories\RepositoryNam e is the source path of the repository c:\Repositories\ is the destination where the dump will create svnbackup.dump name of dump file Restore SVN Go to Run with Administrator privilege and then type cmd and open command prompt Run the following command svnadmin load c:\Repositories < c:\Repositories\svnbackup.dump Here c:\Repositories is the destination path of the repository c:\Repositories\ svnbackup.dump name of dump file that will be loaded