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Subject: Re: recovering data from an unfinished compaction db
From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch@jsonified.com>
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On 22 September 2012 11:56, Rudi Benkovi=C4=8D <rudib@whiletrue.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a .couch file where compaction hasn't finished its job and
> we've lost the pre-compaction production DB file (an unfortunate
> sysadmin error). Running CouchDB 1.2.0, so the new, corrupted file is
> in disk format version 6, with snappy compression.
>
> I've tried using recover-couchdb
> (https://github.com/jhs/recover-couchdb), but it crashes with the
> message that disk format 6 isn't supported. I've also tried dropping
> in 1.2.0 sources, but that also didn't work.
>
> Anyway, any hints on how to recover the data? 180GB file, lots of attachm=
ents.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> --Rudi

Hi Rudi,

If you can, jump on #couchdb IRC channel on freenode & let's get you
some real-time help on this.

A+
Dave