Name
svnadmin recover — Bring a repository database back into a
consistent state (applies only to repositories using the
bdb backend). In addition, if
repos/conf/passwd does not exist, it
will create a default password file .
Synopsis
svnadmin recover REPOS_PATH
Description
Run this command if you get an error indicating that
your repository needs to be recovered.
Examples
Recover a hung repository:
$ svnadmin recover /usr/local/svn/repos/
Repository lock acquired.
Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
Recovery completed.
The latest repos revision is 34.
Recovering the database requires an exclusive lock on
the repository. If another process is accessing the
repository, then
svnadmin recover
will
error:
$ svnadmin recover /usr/local/svn/repos
svn: Failed to get exclusive repository access; perhaps another process
such as httpd, svnserve or svn has it open?
$
The --wait option, however, will
cause
svnadmin recover
to wait
indefinitely for other processes to disconnect:
$ svnadmin recover /usr/local/svn/repos --wait
Waiting on repository lock; perhaps another process has it open?
### time goes by...
Repository lock acquired.
Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
Recovery completed.
The latest repos revision is 34.
