How to repair the database files

Warnings

Backup all files before attempting a repair!
Shutdown the server before attempting a repair!

Windows server

Easy way

• Download this
• Unzip and put the files into server/mods/deathmatch/
• Double click on sqlite_repair_internal_db.bat to repair internal.db
• Double click on sqlite_repair_registry_db.bat to repair registry.db

Hard way

• Download sqlite-shell-win32 from here. If that link fails, the main download page is here.
• Unzip and put sqlite3.exe into server/mods/deathmatch/
• Open command prompt the change directory to server/mods/deathmatch/
• To repair internal.db:
  • Copy internal.db to internal_original.db
  • Do this command: sqlite3.exe internal_original.db .dump | sqlite3.exe internal_repaired.db
  • Copy internal_repaired.db to internal.db

• To repair registry.db:
  • Copy registry.db to registry_original.db
  • Do this command: sqlite3.exe registry_original.db .dump | sqlite3.exe registry_repaired.db
  • Copy registry_repaired.db to registry.db

Linux server

Only way

• Download sqlite-shell-linux from here. If that link fails, the main download page is here.
• Unzip and put sqlite3 into server/mods/deathmatch/
• To repair internal.db:
  • Copy internal.db to internal_original.db
  • Do this command: ./sqlite3 internal_original.db .dump | ./sqlite3 internal_repaired.db
  • Copy internal_repaired.db to internal.db

• To repair registry.db:
  • Copy registry.db to registry_original.db
  • Do this command: ./sqlite3 registry_original.db .dump | ./sqlite3 registry_repaired.db
  • Copy registry_repaired.db to registry.db