Re: Can unlock and recover takes forever

"Philippe Lavoie" <philippe.lavoie@cactus.ca> writes:

> I did a "svn update" and everything locked. I tried to "svn cleanup" to
> no avail. Reading the website, I then tried "svnadmin recover my/repos"
> it has now been displaying the message that it is recovering for the
> last 15 minutes... I'm getting nervous...

'svnadmin recover' can take a very long time depending on the state of
your repository. I've seen it return immediately, and I've watched it
churn for hours. For recovery to work, though, the recovery process
*must* be the only process accessing the repository. So, to be safe,
shutdown Apache and make sure nothing else is touching the repos
before you run 'svnadmin recover'.

> Suppose that recover fails and that I have to manually stop the process.
> What are the chances that I didn't destroy the repository? (I didn't
> make a backup of the db if you are wondering).

Chances are very good that you did NOT destroy the repository.

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Received on Sat Jun 28 10:33:40 2003