Re: [Savannah-users] Re: [Savannah-announce] Recover your repositories

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Dave,

As I mentioned we can only take care of requests submitted via the web
interface, following the procedure below.
Otherwise we'll have too many unsorted requests and there will be mistakes.

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:35:23PM +1000, Dave Hall wrote:
> Hi Sylvain (and the other hackers),
> 
> I have had a quick look at the phpGroupWare commit log.  Restoring our
> svn repo to the state it was in on 29 Apr is fine.
> 
> Good luck with the recovery it sounds like you have a lot of work ahead
> of you.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS phpGW devs read below if this message doesn't make much sense to you.
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:16 +0200, 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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> 
> -- 
> Dave Hall (aka skwashd)
> address@hidden
> 
> 
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