Re: Catastrophic database recovery with db log files

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote :

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:12, Matthias Saou wrote:
>
> > I don't have a backup of the very latest content, but I do have all the
> > logfiles created ever since the repository was started, so I'd be really
> > interested in being able to "replay" all of those. Can anyone point me to
> > an explanation on how to do it?
>
> 1. Copy your whole repository, play with the copy.
>
> 2. Delete the 7 tables: nodes, revisions, representations, changes,
> strings, transactions, uuids
>
> 3. run 'db_recover -c -h /path/to/repos/db'
>
> (The -c is for 'catastrophic' recovery.)
>
> I believe this is what the BDB docs recommend.

This worked perfectly, thanks a lot!
Now, although I reinstalled db 4.1 without the NPTL (posixmutexes IIRC)
stuff, I still get my repository locked and unusable after trying large
commits, which is pretty annoying. I guess I'll try to recompile against
db 4.2 instead.

Thanks again for your help, it saved quite some work :-)

Matthias

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