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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by hajhouse <ha...@houseag.com> on 2007/03/19 03:14:15 UTC

Re: Reconstructing a repository from revs/* files --- success

På 2007-03-16, skrev Ryan Schmidt:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 14:22, hajhouse wrote:
> 
> >It is possible to reconstruct a repository from the files in db/revs/
> >alone? As far as I can tell all the files for all the revisions are
> >present, but filesystem corruption destroyed all the other pieces  
> >of the
> >database (fsfs format).
> 
> You'd almost certainly also need the contents of db/revprops/, one  
> file per revision, just like db/revs/.

The recovery was sucessful! I managed to locate all 891 db/revprops
files and reinsert them in the correct order into place. The repository
appeared to work fine after that, but I have dumped and re-loaded it
just in case there are any obscure problems caused by reconstructing a
database by hand.

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