[Savannah-announce] Re: Recover your repositories (new May backup)

[Sylvain Beucler]

Good news: we discovered a new backup from May 27th.
After tests, it appears to be a complete backup.

We've added a new backup-20090527 directory.
It's available for cvs/svn/git/hg.

We're replicating to the disk at the moment (right now it's a
read-only remote mount).

If you want to use it instead of the April backup, you can modify your
support request.

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 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.