title: Unable to do an SVN dump -- Error E720002 and format errors
body: <p>I'm new to SVN, so forgive the possible straightforward problem.  I'm trying to do an Subversion dump of one of my projects:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svnadmin dump C:\code\project1 -r 9 &gt; repo.dmp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I'm getting this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svnadmin: E720002: Can't open file 'project1\format': The system cannot 
  find the file specified.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It appears to be looking for the <code>format</code> file which is actually located at <code>project1\.svn\format</code>. This has me puzzled as I'd expect it to look in the <code>.svn</code> subdirectory of project1, but instead is looking in the root.</p>
  
  <p>I then tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svnadmin dump project1\.svn -r 9 &gt; repo.dmp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this resulted in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svnadmin: E165005: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '12'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought this was an issue with my format being out of data since that is a common issue from what I've read.  My server is repositoryhosting.com and they are on 1.7.1 server.  On my client, I am using TortoiseSVN with SVN:</p>
  
  <p>TortoiseSVN 1.7.4, Build 22459 - 64 Bit
  Subversion 1.7.2</p>
  
  <p>Upon further reading, I might be confusing things and needing to go against the actual repository instead of my local working copy. Problem is that the repository is in the cloud hosted by repositoryhosting.com and svnadmin won't accept URLs as repo locations, only local paths.</p>
  
  <p>would love some help with what's going on...</p>