Re: [fetchmail-devel] FYI: recovered SVN repository

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> the SVN repository required recovery, visible in that svn ls printed
> "DB_RUNRECOVERY" embedded in a longish error message.
>
> The remedy was:
> ssh svn.berlios.de
> svnadmin recover /svnroot/repos/fetchmail
>
> NOTE! This is a dangerous operation in that it may only be conducted on
> a quiet repository, as data base recovery does not serialize (lock)
> against concurrent execution of svnadmin recover, which may fail and
> potentially cause corruption.

Yeah, I've had to do that once or twice before.  It's a bit disturbing that 
it happens though.  I wish I knew why.  Luckily recovery seems to be 
pretty easy.

> I've also taken the opportunity to compress unused log files:
>
> svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /svnroot/repos/fetchmail | xargs gzip -9f

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that being any sort of issue.

I'm really looking forward to sitting down with the subversion book....

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