Synopsis

svnadmin recover REPOS_PATH

Description

Run this command if you get an error indicating that your repository needs to be recovered.

Options

--wait

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. (This is a в€œdatabase lockв€�; see The three meanings of в€œlockв€�.) 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 openЁ

$

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 openЁ

### time goes by∦

Repository lock acquired.
Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...

Recovery completed.
The latest repos revision is 34.