Recovery Of A Multiple Repository To Git Service Or GitProtect Worker
In this article, you will get information on how to restore multiple repositories to git service or localhost.
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In this article, you will get information on how to restore multiple repositories to git service or localhost.
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Open the GitHub tab and then click on the Manage & Restore button next to the organization where you want to restore the backup.
In the next step select by checkbox the multiple repositories that you want to restore and click the Restore selected button available on the top action menu.
By clicking on individual repositories, a window will appear, where you will be able to select a plan and a backup version to restore.
With the switch, you can include metadata in the backup or not.
That allows you to select the destination of the restore process.
The edit button gives you the possibility to select one of the assigned organizations of any Git service or any device.
Restore settings
You can use the switches to turn on and off the available options like adding a label to the restored element.
By restoring repos with a custom name you can rename the restored repositories. A window will appear where you can rename one or more repos.
To don't overwrite existing repo in the organization use switch Add suffix to repo name. If you do not change the repository name, the restored repository will have its original name with an automatically generated suffix.
Before the last option is to reduce your internet bandwidth during the recovery process.
The last is to define the maximum number of concurrent restore tasks.
If you have successfully configured everything, you can press the Start now button to start the restore process.
To restore the repository to the local device you have to have local Git client installed on this device.
You can resotore only repository (without metadata), if you restore the data to the local resources!
You can download Git here:
Make sure, that the device, to which you want to restore data to has GitProtect Agent installed and the Git client is added to the Path environment variable. The Path variable should be configured automatically after the Git installation (system restart may be required), but if it isn't, set it as the path to the git.exe file:
To configure the Path variable, go to the environment variables, select the Path variable and hit the Edit button.
Now copy the git.exe file path and paste into the Path variable.
In the next step, Restore directory, select the directory, to where the data should be restored to.
Here you can reduce your internet bandwidth during the recovery process.
If you have successfully configured everything, you can press the Start now button to start the restore process.
You have to know that closed / merged Pull Requests are recovered as closed issues.
