Restoring corrupt revision
Hi All, I have identified a single corrupt revision in the repository. Is restoring that ** specific ** revision from a tape backup a reasonable approach or is it a hack and could cause further problems down the track. Thanks Lakshman
Re: Restoring corrupt revision
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Srilakshmanan, Lakshman lakshman.srilakshma...@police.vic.gov.au wrote: Hi All, I have identified a single corrupt revision in the repository. Is restoring that ** specific ** revision from a tape backup a reasonable approach or is it a hack and could cause further problems down the track. I don't see any other option than this either, even if this is hack, I have done similar thing for one of our repositories and haven't faced any problem in future, so even if this is hack I don't see any problem with the approach. -- Vishwajeet Singh +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet
RE: Restoring corrupt revision
I have identified a single corrupt revision in the repository. Is restoring that ** specific ** revision from a tape backup a reasonable approach or is it a hack and could cause further problems down the track. I don't see any other option than this either, even if this is hack, I have done similar thing for one of our repositories and haven't faced any problem in future, so even if this is hack I don't see any problem with the approach. Out of interest, how can you restore a single revision into a repo? I am assuming reasonably clever use of dump and restore? Including from a recovered version of the repo on a spare svn server? Or is there a quicker/easier way? ~ mark c
Re: Restoring corrupt revision
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Cooke, Mark mark.co...@siemens.comwrote: I have identified a single corrupt revision in the repository. Is restoring that ** specific ** revision from a tape backup a reasonable approach or is it a hack and could cause further problems down the track. I don't see any other option than this either, even if this is hack, I have done similar thing for one of our repositories and haven't faced any problem in future, so even if this is hack I don't see any problem with the approach. Out of interest, how can you restore a single revision into a repo? I am assuming reasonably clever use of dump and restore? Including from a recovered version of the repo on a spare svn server? Or is there a quicker/easier way? There is quicker and wicked way to do it at least the way I did it, I am not sure if the approach was right or wrong but this will only work if you have backup of repository at some point which is not corrupted just go to the db directory of repository copy that revision and past it in your corrupted repository but as I said this is hack and not a clean approach but worked for me, I am not recommending it to anyone to try it at your own risk, that was a last resort for me and worked. Regards, Vishwajeet Singh +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet
Re: Restoring corrupt revision
The clean way would be to do a dump of your repo from after the dirty revision. Do a dump up to and including the dirty revision from your known good copy do a load of the clean dump + the live dump On 22 April 2010 08:30, vishwajeet singh dextrou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Cooke, Mark mark.co...@siemens.comwrote: I have identified a single corrupt revision in the repository. Is restoring that ** specific ** revision from a tape backup a reasonable approach or is it a hack and could cause further problems down the track. I don't see any other option than this either, even if this is hack, I have done similar thing for one of our repositories and haven't faced any problem in future, so even if this is hack I don't see any problem with the approach. Out of interest, how can you restore a single revision into a repo? I am assuming reasonably clever use of dump and restore? Including from a recovered version of the repo on a spare svn server? Or is there a quicker/easier way? There is quicker and wicked way to do it at least the way I did it, I am not sure if the approach was right or wrong but this will only work if you have backup of repository at some point which is not corrupted just go to the db directory of repository copy that revision and past it in your corrupted repository but as I said this is hack and not a clean approach but worked for me, I am not recommending it to anyone to try it at your own risk, that was a last resort for me and worked. Regards, Vishwajeet Singh +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet
