Taken and slightly adapted from www.robgonda.com/blog
svnadmin dump /path/to/repos > proj.dump cat proj.dump | svndumpfilter exclude somefolder > cleanproj.dump STOP SVN services BACKUP /path/to/repos/conf /path/to/repos/hooks (all custom configuration for this repository) DELETE /path/to/repos svnadmin create /path/to/repos RESTORE /path/to/repos/conf /path/to/repos/hooks svnadmin load /path/to/repos < cleanproj.dump RESTART SVN services