Nah you can just patch the restore code to not care about empty repos and then try the restore again and it should work fine.
-Alex On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <sy...@gitlab.com> wrote: > Since not being able to restore from backup is very serious we wonder > if you could you contact supp...@gitlab.com to investigate this > together. > > Best regards, > Sytse Sijbrandij > CEO GitLab B.V. > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Markus Koeberl > <markus.koeb...@tugraz.at> wrote: > > On Sunday 26 October 2014 11:34:47 Bobby Allen wrote: > >> Good morning guys, > >> > >> I'm hoping that someone can help, my problem seems to be as follows:- > >> > >> I backed up my production GitLab server (running 7.4.2) and then tried > to > >> restore following a re-install of the OS (wanted to go from Ubuntu 12.04 > >> LTS to 14.04 LTS) but when attempting to restore the backup, it fails as > >> shown in the screenshot below: > >> > >> < > https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iawUJQswA1o/VEzMda9FwxI/AAAAAAAAIKg/WkhOakOn-KI/s1600/Screenshot%2B2014-10-26%2B10.26.41.png > > > >> I can confirm that when running the rail:check command, my environment > is > >> setup correctly and strangely the other project names appear below but > >> obviously haven't been created/imported as the above error message shows > >> the 'motters/ManUniBooking' project failed to import which obviously > >> stopped the rest from being successfully imported: > >> > >> < > https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-42LKjc1JYd0/VEzOD1SA10I/AAAAAAAAIKs/YShPvTLmmbU/s1600/Screenshot%2B2014-10-26%2B10.32.33.png > > > >> > >> After speaking the the repository owner he advised that he had setup the > >> 'project' however had never 'pushed' any code to it so basically it > appears > >> that my GitLab server is failing over when trying to import a project > which > >> has no Git repository/code I assume. > >> > >> Is there anyway I can 'skip' these errors and simply just not restore > any > >> projects that have no repositories (never had code pushed to them) so I > can > >> ensure that I am able to restore the other 20+ repositories I have on > this > >> backup or am I now screwed? :( > >> > >> Thanks in advance and really hope someone can offer me some advice :) > > > > Today I encountered the same problem with gitlab 7.4.0 omnibus debian > deb during my update procedure to 7.4.2. > > Any ideas how to fix this? > > > > I do have a test system so it's save for me to perform some tests... > > I will wait with updating my production environment till I am sure it is > possible to restore a backup again. > > > > > > regards > > Markus > > --- > > Markus Koeberl > > Graz University of Technology > > Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory > > E-mail: markus.koeb...@tugraz.at > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "GitLab" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/201410271001.35017.markus.koeberl%40tugraz.at > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitLab" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/CAJTzhG8W3BX_Uh01U5gKTvkP01NzOtQ4DbNKr%3DB78C-XJEqcNw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/CAGWx_yY%2BF2efoNJ4h2%2BhNgaX%3Db9e%3DemZFVoHJQYb43sxjwirNw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
