<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svnadmin recover</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html" title="svnadmin Reference—Subversion Repository Administration" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.pack.html" title="svnadmin pack" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.rmlocks.html" title="svnadmin rmlocks" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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In addition, if <code class="filename">repos/conf/passwd</code> does not exist, it will create a default passwordfile .</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <p> <code class="literal">svnadmin recover REPOS_PATH</code> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm13962"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p>Run this command if you get an error indicating that your repository needs to be recovered.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm13965"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.wait"><code class="option">--wait</code></a> </pre> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm13970"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>Recover a hung repository:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svnadmin recover /var/svn/repos/ Repository lock acquired. Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time... Recovery completed. The latest repos revision is 34. </pre> </div> <p>Recovering the database requires an exclusive lock on the repository. (This is a <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">database lock</span>”</span>; see the sidebar <a class="xref" href="svn.advanced.locking.html#svn.advanced.locking.meanings" title="The Three Meanings of “Lock”">The Three Meanings of <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Lock</span>”</span></a>.) If another process is accessing the repository, then <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin recover</strong></span> will error:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svnadmin recover /var/svn/repos svn: E165000: Failed to get exclusive repository access; perhaps another proce ss such as httpd, svnserve or svn has it open? $ </pre> </div> <p>The <code class="option">--wait</code> option, however, will cause <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin recover</strong></span> to wait indefinitely for other processes to disconnect:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svnadmin recover /var/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. 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