Recovery Of A Multiple Repository To Git Service Or GitProtect Worker

In this article, you will get information on how to restore multiple repository to git service or localhost.

Get into restore view

Open the GitHub tab and then click on the Manage & Restore button next to the organization that 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.

Select the backup plan and version

By clicking on individual repositories, a window will appear, where you will be able to select a plan and a backup version to restore.

Restore options

Data to restore

With the switch, you can include metadata to restore or not.

Restore to

That allows you to select the destination of the restore process.

Edit button gives you the possibility to select one of the assigned organizations of any Git service or any device.

Device used to restore the data

This section gives the possibility to choose the device by the Change button which will be responsible for performing the restoration.

Restore to Git organization

Restore settings

You can use the switches to turn on and off the available options like adding label to the restored element.

By restoring repos with 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.

Restore to local device

Restore directory

To restore the repositories to the localhost - any device - select the Device option, and next the destination device.

To restore the repositories 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 the 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:

C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe

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 it to the Path variable.