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Re: serious trouble

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-27 16:13:33 CEST

On Oct 27, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Lukas Cerman wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> We are unable to recover our repository. The repository is inaccesible
> since one user's commit has crashed. We tried use svnadmin recover --
> as described in manual -- but we get allways this response:
>
> raid:/tmp# svnadmin recover /tmp/all
> Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
> svn: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

Try using the db_recover utility in catastrophic mode (-c):

    $ db_recover -vech /tmp/all/db/

>
> We shifted from CVS to SVN one month ago and were very pleasured. But
> we are concerned on data consistency and this make us affraid. What
> should we do to recover our repository and to prevent it happens
> again?

See the FAQ:
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#stuck-bdb-repos

>
> Any suggestion?
>
> We have version:
> svnadmin, version 1.0.8 (r11084)
> compiled Sep 27 2004, 01:09:34
>

Upgrade to 1.1. 'svnadmin recover' gives better error messages in 1.1,
and also, if BDB continues to create problems for you, you can try
switching to an FSFS repository instead.

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