Does the Svnadmin verify do checksum checks? How does it verify validity?
> On Nov 3, 2021, at 1:44 PM, Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 5:09 PM Luke Mauldin <lukemaul...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Can anyone tell me the details of the svnadmin verify command? Does >> subversion store any internal hash of each commit to verify its correctness >> and that it has not changed over time due to disk/memory errors or software >> bugs? >> >> Luke Mauldin > > Yes. The purpose of 'svnadmin verify' is to check for exactly those > kinds of errors. > > By default it runs through each revision one-by-one and stops/reports > if it finds a problem. There's also a --keep-going option since SVN > 1.9. > > It is a good idea to run 'svnadmin verify' periodically on > repositories to ensure their integrity. > > It is also crucial to have a good backup process in place, i.e., keep > multiple good up-to-date backups of repositories in different physical > locations and make sure you can restore from them before disaster > strikes. Obviously it's of no use to detect corruption if you don't > have backups to restore from. > > Hope this helps, > Nathan
