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Re: Recreate SVN DB

From: Saurabh Patel <patel.saurabh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:31:12 -0400

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your reply, however at this time I think we're just going to
go ahead with the data I was able to recover and take extra caution as far
as backups are concerned.
Thanks again!

Saurabh

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:11:36AM +0000, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > There are companies which offer commercial support including hex-editing
> broken repositories.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good answer in general for questions asked
> on the users@ list, which is a free best effort support forum.
>
> Loss of data is tragic, and it seems in this case that several revision
> files (817-824) have been lost. It might still be possible to extract
> a full text if any of the files in the 825-891 range were saved as full
> texts, rather than deltas. This is the case for representations which
> begin with a line saying
> "DELTA\n"
> instead of
> "DELTA <rev> <item_index> <length>\n"
>
> Saurabh, are there any revision files among the 825-891 range which
> contains contain lines saying just "DELTA"?
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I really need some help!! I accidentally deleted my Repository folder. I
> have a backup of it from last year, and have a incremental backup of it as
> well. Unfortunately my backup system had problems and so the only thing I
> could retrieve from the most recent backup was the "db" folder which has
> the revprops and rev folder and current file. Under the revprops and rev
> folders, I notice the files in there are from 825-891. My backup from last
> year has files from 0-816. So I'm missing files 817-824. Now I can open my
> last year's backup just fine using Repo-Browser, but can't seem to open the
> most recent backup as it only has the db folder. Is there a way I can merge
> all these files together without the missing files? I use Tortoise SVN
> 1.7. Please help. Any help or advice is really appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -S
>
Received on 2014-07-03 21:31:43 CEST

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