best practice: accessing svn data without co

[Jan Ciesko (GMAIL)]

Dear SVN users

I would like to ask the following: is there a way to access svn data on 
the svn server without checking data out? I would need to create 
temporal tar'ed archive of a versioned directory that is then attached 
to a website. Both web- and svn-server are running on the same system.

Thanks a lot for help.
Best regards,
Jan.