[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:34:24 -0500

 Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Niemann, Hartmut <hartmut.niemann_at_siemens.com
> wrote:

> **
> Hello!
> Our SVN server had a disk failure and some projects had to be restored
> from the nightly backup.
>
> What happens in such a case, if my working copy is on revision 120 and the
> latest revision in the restored archive is 110?
>
> I did some tests and it looks like subversion detects that (I used
> TortoiseSVN 1.7.10 on windows using the svn core library 1.7.7).
> So at least it looks like a newer working copy can not be overwritten
> incidentially by the restored (older) HEAD revision.
>
> But how should one recover in such a situation?
> Is a fresh checkout and a manual merge necessary?
>
>
> Yes, you will need to check out fresh WCs & manually get as much of those
missing 10 revisions into the repository.
Received on 2012-11-28 14:35:42 CET

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.