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Re: Have an old SVN 1.1 DB corruption issue and need some help

From: Chris Shelton <cshelton_at_shelton-family.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:40:28 -0400

Dana,

This page of the subversion book sounds like it might be helpful in your
situation:
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#wedged-repos

I am sure that switching to a FSFS repository data store with your new
system is advisable.

chris

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Dana Epp <dana_at_vulscan.com> wrote:

> I have inherited a REALLY old SVN server that was mismanaged for years.
> They were using WebDAV successfully for so long they never noticed any
> issues under the hood, but the BDB is corrupt and cannot run an svnadmin
> dump on it to move it to a new server that I built that has all the latest
> SVN bits.
>
> The old system is running SVN 1.1.1 with BDB 4.2.52.
>
> At this point after following several different pieces of guidance online
> the system starts a dump, and ends up after several "Dumped revision #"
> pukes out hundreds of the following lines:
>
> svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_flush: LSN of 56874/862249 past current end-of-log
> of 1/2786
> svn: bdb: Database environment corrupt; the wrong log files may have been
> removed or incompatible database files imported from another environment
>
> Does anyone know where I should go from here? Does anyone know of anyone
> consulting on these sort of repairs? I did a full export of the whole repro
> using WebDAV before I started this, so I have HEAD, but I don't want to
> lose the history if I don't have to.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dana
>
Received on 2013-08-16 21:41:27 CEST

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