How to Restore Repositories from Bitbucket-Home (database was crash and unable to recover)

speedytnw

I only have Bitbucket-Home.

But don't have database anymore.

How to recover back all my repositories.

 

Thanks.

Anton Shaleev

Hi speedytnw

Sorry to hear that you Bitbucket instance crashed.

While Bitbucket stores the git data on the filesystem all the metadata (projects, pull requests, web-hooks) are stored in the database.

So in order to restore the instance from only home filesystem you need to:

1. Copy all the repositories from shared/data/repositories somewhere else (make a backup of whole shared before)
2.  Recreate all the projects
3. Recreate all the repositories with the old names and leave them empty for now
4. In the copy shared/data/repositories you've made on the first step go inside each repository and execute the following command
5.  

   cd existing-project
   git remote set-url origin https://url.com/scm/projectname/reponame.git
   git push -u origin --all
   git push origin --tags

6. The URL for git remote command you can take from clone URL of each repository in UI

 

Best regards

Anton