Hi I'm wondering if there is a tool (can be commercial) to mass verify svn repositories. I know about using svnadmin but there are about 100 repositories and it's tedious to check whether if there's actually a corruption. I'm looking for something that can run in the background periodically and alert if there is a corruption.
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Wouldn't it be reasonably simple to write a shell script that executes svnadmin verify PATH for all the repositories, pipes the output to a filter that filters out (e.g. grep -v) the normal "Verified revision xxx" cases, and emails the rest to someone? Put that in crontab and you have a periodic mass verifier.
Joonas Pulakka
2010-03-01 12:43:06
I'm on windows, and not vaugely familiar with VB. It would take me probably half a day to figure out or do in C#, which cost me more than buying an available solution. Not to mention maintaince.
Robin
2010-03-01 16:57:50
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There is a tool called MR-ATS which does exactly this thing: It is written in python to help svnadmins by their day to day work (as eg. verify a lot of repositories).
It will work with a scheduled task and send emails, if something strange happens. Additionally it can generate usage reports and do hotcopies for backups.
Peter Parker
2010-03-02 21:59:10
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The MR - ATS tool looks like vapourware. No released files and no activity for > 1 year :(
David Moorhouse
2010-06-25 04:05:55
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Ok, this doesn't mail the results but it does get it out of all the subversion repos and it doesn't use vb or c#, just plain ol' cmd batch scriptin':
@echo off
FOR /D %%s in (*) do svnadmin verify %%s > ..\verified\%%s.txt 2>&1
8DH
2010-09-29 09:00:27