You can create dumps of remote subversion repositories, which can be used to recreate the repository. (Google suggests that this is called svnrdump; it's been a

You can create dumps of remote subversion repositories, which can be used to recreate the repository. (Google suggests that this is called svnrdump; it's been a while since I seriously used svn.) I admit that this isn't widely known, and that many people will actually be in trouble; but if you're prepared, you don't have to be.