For better survival of backups, send a copy of the backups to trusted people via a drop service such as lufi.ethibox.fr or wetransfer.com.
If you don’t know how to interact with SF’s servers, SF has help pages for its services.
SF allows to export data (bugtracker, forum…) others than SVN and website.
Logged in with an administrator account, got to section Admin, and use the Export option of the vertical menu. The page is titled Project Export.
Select option Check All and option With attachments and launch the export.
You have to wait a few minutes for an email that will tell you where to find the backup when it is ready.
The email will indicate where to download the archive on web.sourceforge.net
FTP with your SF user account.
Follow official documentation at https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Data%20Export/
n.b.: since 2025 SF removed the SSH interactive shell.
See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302592/how-do-i-back-up-a-remote-svn-repository
Use the SVN remote dump tool svnrdump.
Authenticate with your account (+ password) or your private key for which you installed the public key on your SF account:
svnrdump dump --username=<sf_account_login> svn+ssh://<sf_account_login>@svn.code.sf.net/p/wikindx/svn/ > sf-svn-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S').dump
Compress the file when the dump is done:
bzip2 --best sf-svn-wikindx-$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')-*.dump
See also https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/File%20Manager%20Backups/
Retrieval files from the SF webserver with rsync.
Authenticate with your account (+ password) or your private key for which you installed the public key on your SF account:
rsync -avzPL -e ssh <sf_account_login> @web.sourceforge.net:/home/project-web/wikindx ./sf-website-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S')
Create a website TAR archive:
tar -cvf sf-website-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d').tar sf-website-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')-*
Compress the TAR file:
bzip2 --best sf-website-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d').tar
See also https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/File%20Manager%20Backups/
Retrieval files from the SF webserver with rsync.
Authenticate with your account (+ password) or your private key for which you installed the public key on your SF account:
rsync -avzPL -e ssh <sf_account_login>@web.sourceforge.net:/home/pfs/project/wikindx ./sf-packages-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S')
Create a website TAR archive:
tar -cvf sf-packages-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d').tar sf-packages-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')-*
Compress the TAR file:
bzip2 --best sf-packages-wikindx_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d').tar
You can now download the compressed dump file by connecting to the frs.sourceforge.netFTP with your SF user account. It’s in the folder /home/user-web/s/sf/<sf_account_login> (s and sf are the first letters of the user account).
After downloading, delete the dump file:
rm sf_website_wikindx_YYYY-MM-DD-HHmmss.tar.bz2
And disconnect:
shutdown