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
