Thank you Phil for sharing your experience, you have made me think about the folder. I must have done last year a branch in the repository that leads to another folder outside the one that I did backup, maybe this is why I've lost the history. Le vendredi 18 décembre 2020 à 22 h 34 min 22 s UTC-5, Phil Seakins a écrit :
> FWIW, I had trouble restoring backup copies of the repo. I found there > were subfolders which weren't backed up because they were empty and their > absence failed the repo integrity. IIRC I got round it by recreating the > folders. > > On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 8:37:17 am UTC+10 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hi Tobias, >> >> It is nice to know that I'm not the only one that has been living the >> same situation. Here's the answer to your question. >> - Are you sure that the backup was complete? >> I think so, because of the size of the svn-repository folder which >> was 873meg, after the restore the size is the same. I think my error I did >> not use SVNAdmin hotcopy <SVN-Repository Folder>, to do a backup, I have >> used the explorer backup >> - Are you sure that the restore of the backup was fully done? >> I'm pretty sure, because of the size. >> - What SVN server do you use? >> I have used Tortoise SVN as a server-based repo to access the >> folder from the desktop to the laptop SVN-Repository folder, >> >> Thank you Tobias for your help, >> Robert >> >> >> Le vendredi 18 décembre 2020 à 01 h 34 min 45 s UTC-5, Tobias Knauss a >> écrit : >> >>> [email protected] schrieb am Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2020 um 04:16:05 >>> UTC+1: >>> >>>> This is regarding TortoiseSVN missing revisions history when looking up >>>> the working copies' show log. >>>> >>>> After a reinstallation of windows on both computers and restoring the >>>> repository with the working copies from my back up, I’ve lost the latest >>>> SVN revisions. >>>> >>>> My question, is there a way to restore the subversion revisions that I >>>> do not see, or it will be forever lost? >>>> >>>> For the environment, as a single developer SVN working copies on a >>>> desktop and a laptop; the working copies are committed to one repository >>>> on >>>> the laptop. >>>> >>>> I’ve read in the ebook, “svn-book.pdf” which is very good. We can >>>> recuperate files that were deleted; I imagine there is a way to get the >>>> subversion in sync with the current state. >>>> >>>> Thank you, Robert >>>> >>> >>> I am not a developer of Tortoise SVN, but just a user. >>> However, I would like to support you if possible since I once >>> encountered a similar situation as you are in. >>> You wrote that you have restored a backup of the repository. This brings >>> up several questions: >>> - Are you sure that the backup was complete? >>> - Are you sure that the restore of the backup was fully done? >>> - What SVN server do you use? Is it a file-based repo, created by TSVN, >>> or a server-based repo, hosted by software like "Subversion Edge" or >>> "Visual SVN Server"? >>> >>> In my situation, I created and restored a backup in SVN Edge, but the >>> restore was incomplete (because of some failures in SVN Edge, being unable >>> to handle some kind of line-breaks in log messages, see >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10279222/how-can-i-fix-the-svn-import-line-endings-error/). >>> >>> The restore finished, but it was incomplete. Maybe you are in a similar >>> situation: Your repo may be half-restored, thus missing the revisions you >>> are looking for. >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/98e0669d-3fa2-4f89-a907-90406f011568n%40googlegroups.com.
