svnadmin recover
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## Name

svnadmin recover — Bring a repository database back into a consistent state (applies only to repositories using the `bdb` backend). In addition, if `repos/conf/passwd` does not exist, it will create a default passwordfile .

## 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 /var/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 “database lock”; see the sidebar The Three Meanings of “Lock”.) If another process is accessing the repository, then svnadmin recover will error:

    $ svnadmin recover /var/svn/repos
    svn: Failed to get exclusive repository access; perhaps another process
    such as httpd, svnserve or svn has it open?

    $

The `--wait` option, however, will cause svnadmin recover to wait indefinitely for other processes to disconnect:

    $ 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.
    The latest repos revision is 34.

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