Laurel Gaddie wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A few weeks ago, our repository became inaccessible. We had two recent
> backups, both of which are also not viable. We desperately need to
> recover
> this repository, or at least a recent revision. The last revision was
> 649.
>
> "svnadmin verify" reports the following:
>
> * Verified revision 0.
> ...
> * Verified revision 299.
> svn: No such string 'ol7'
>>
>
> Working backward starting from revision 649, I dumped one revision at a
> time. For revisions 640-649, "svnadmin dump" reports "No such string
> 'ol4'." For revisions 618-639, it reports "No such string 'om5'." I have
> not tested all of revisions 300-617, but attempts to dump a few revisions
> chosen at random from within that range yielded similar results.
>
> "svnadmin recover" reports no errors when applied to the most recent
> backup,
> but a dump file produced from that backup is still not viable when loaded
> into a newly-created repository:
>
> ...
> ------- Committed revision 299 >>>
>
> <<< Started new transaction, based on original revision 300
> * adding path : Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin/LDAPmap.fm ... done.
> * adding path : Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin/PABS_3-1_admin.book ...
> done.
> * adding path : Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin/PABS_3-1_adminIX.fm ...
> done.
> * adding path : Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin/PABS_3-1_adminTOC.fm ...
> done.
> * adding path : Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin/admin.fm ...svn: Premature
> end of content data in dumpstream
>
> I also tried running the dump file through svndumpfilter and excluding the
> Messaging/PABS/PABS_Admin path, but ran into the same "Premature end of
> content data" error.
>
> Any advice? If it makes any difference, almost all the files in our
> repository are binary files, mostly Framemaker and image files.
Hello,
I'm the unofficial Subversion BDB recovery expert.
I can probably do something for this repository, but I will need a copy of
the repository.
Please put a tarball or zipfile of the repository on a web/ftp site, and
email me the URL.
Putting the two backups there too might be useful as well.
Max.
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Received on Sun Dec 19 14:38:29 2004