In the event that your Subversion server was powered down incorrectly during one of its subversion mirror synchronizations you might end up with a lock on the destination repository. This basic tutorial will help you to remove the lock and continue with your synchronizations.

Below is the output from the svnsync showed this:

# /usr/bin/svnsync --non-interactive synchronize svn://{destination repository}/opt/svn/{repo}

Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by ‘svn.how2centos.com:fbc2c0c8-957f-0410-8a06-87f31314868b’
svnsync: Couldn’t get lock on destination repos after 10 attempts

To remove the lock you’ll need to do the following:

# svn propdel svn:sync-lock --revprop -r 0 svn://{destination repository}/opt/svn/{repo}
# /usr/bin/svnsync --non-interactive synchronize svn://{destination repository}/opt/svn/{repo}

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