Re: [Savannah-users] Recover your repositories (precision)

[Sylvain Beucler]

In your requests, remember to specify:
- name of the project
- VCS type (CVS / SVN / both)
- date of the backup to recover (April / May)

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:15:48AM +0000, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 
> The system is now completely functional.
> It's time to decide what to do with your data.
> (see first explanations at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2009-05/msg00023.html)
> 
> 
> Please discuss and send questions at address@hidden !
> 
> For import requests: see below, you need to send a support request via
> the web interface.
> 
> 
> 
> Basically your choices are:
> a) you can use the backup from April 29
> b) you can use our latest (incomplete) backup from May 29
> c) you can import another backup you have
> d) you can wait a few days until we possibly recover latest data from the
> crashes disk (nothing is sure though). More details about this later.
> 
> 
> Here's how do it for the various VCSs:
> 
> * CVS:
> a) The version from 29 April in the 'backup-20090429' subdirectory.
> b) The version from 29 May in the 'backup-20090529-incomplete' subdirectory.
> c) Upload your backup in your download area (SFTP) for us to import
> 
> Access commands:
> cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/backup-20090429/your_project
> co your_module
> cvs
> -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/backup-20090529-incomplete/your_project
> co your_module
> rsync rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/backup-20090429/your_project/
> rsync
> rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/backup-20090529-incomplete/your_project/
> 
> IN ALL CASES: post a support request, authenticated (i.e. login first) at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=administration with
> category "RECOVERY: CVS/SVN". Requests send by mail or in the wrong category
> won't be processed.
> 
> If after 2 weeks we didn't receive an answer for your project, we'll
> reinstall the latest backup we have.
> 
> 
> * SVN:
> a) The version from 29 April in the 'backup-20090429' subdirectory.
> b) The version from 29 May in the 'backup-20090529-incomplete' subdirectory.
> c) Upload your backup in your download area (SFTP)
> 
> Access commands:
> svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/backup-20090429/your_project
> svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/backup-20090529-incomplete/your_project
> rsync rsync://svn.sv.gnu.org/svn/backup-20090429/your_project/
> rsync rsync://svn.sv.gnu.org/svn/backup-20090529-incomplete/your_project/
> (if you get an error from this last one, it's probably corrupted)
> 
> IN ALL CASES: post a support request, authenticated (i.e. login first) at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=administration with
> category "RECOVERY: CVS/SVN". Requests send by mail or in the wrong category
> won't be processed.
> 
> If after 2 weeks we didn't receive an answer for your project, we'll
> reinstall the latest backup we have.
> 
> 
> * Git:
> a) We installed the version from 29 April.
> b) You can attempt to recover from the partial 29 May backup:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/backup-20090529-incomplete/
> c) You can push a local version if you have one (git push --all; git push
> --tags)
> 
> You can import the repository directly, without our help.
> 
> 
> * Mercurial:
> a) We installed the version from 29 April.
> b) We don't have a more recent backup
> c) You can push a local version if you have one.
> 
> You can import the repository directly, without our help.
> 
> 
> * WebCVS:
> 
> We plan to either recover the data from disk, or failing that, manually
> commit the latest version at www.gnu.org and www.nongnu.org.
> 
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