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.
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. …