Posted on by Tonya Howe

Recovering the DB

 

And so it begins: this is what greeted me when I started eXist after, apparently, mucking about in expathrepo when I wasn’t supposed to. What follows is basically a screenshot diary of the recovery process–I’m not sure I really want to revisit it, but perhaps I’ll come back and add a narrative later…

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Yuck. But click into the Java Client, which still works, and you can do the repairs.

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I think the backup at this point didn’t make much difference. Always back stuff up!
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First attempt at repairing didn’t work because the expathrepo directory still existed and therefore couldn’t be rebuilt.
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Renaming expathrepo to badbadbad so it can be rebuilt
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So many thanks to the twitterverse!
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The repair is working!
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Repair is done
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A new expathrepo directory–now I can delete the corrupted part
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Aaaand, we’re back!

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