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Is it possible to restore data from a deleted but backed up commit file?

SXPCPH

Greetings!

One of our developers have found out that they have mistakenly deleted a branch last month where we can find the data file in the backups but do not know how to open or import it.

BitBucket stores all the commits in \Atlassian\ApplicationData\BitBucket\shared\data\repositories\x\objects\y as some 38-character hex-value files - but how can you go about getting data out of them?

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G__Sylvie_Davies__bit-booster_com_

Two possibilities:

One of your cloned git repos might not have yet pruned that branch out of the true history, and so you if you know its original 40-character commit-id, might be able to get the branch back by simply typing "git checkout <commitId>" on a developer workstation.
Grab the entire repo from your backup and copy it to a computer (\Atlassian\ApplicationData\BitBucket\shared\data\repositories\x). Clone it locally, and jump to the deleted branch:
```
git clone \path\to\copy\of\x
cd x
git checkout branch
```

- Regards,

Sylvie Davies

Founder and Software Engineer, bit-booster.com

p.s. I invite you to try my Bitbucket and JIRA add-ons. Bit-Booster Commit Graph and More (for Bitbucket), and Git Graph for JIRA.

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Mike Friedrich

Yes, that should be possible.

Restore the repository from backup to some workstation. Clone it locally, set origin back to the server repo, then push the deleted branch.

G__Sylvie_Davies__bit-booster_com_

Two possibilities:

One of your cloned git repos might not have yet pruned that branch out of the true history, and so you if you know its original 40-character commit-id, might be able to get the branch back by simply typing "git checkout <commitId>" on a developer workstation.
Grab the entire repo from your backup and copy it to a computer (\Atlassian\ApplicationData\BitBucket\shared\data\repositories\x). Clone it locally, and jump to the deleted branch:
```
git clone \path\to\copy\of\x
cd x
git checkout branch
```

- Regards,

Sylvie Davies

Founder and Software Engineer, bit-booster.com

p.s. I invite you to try my Bitbucket and JIRA add-ons. Bit-Booster Commit Graph and More (for Bitbucket), and Git Graph for JIRA.

SXPCPH

Thank you both so far for your suggestions, we will test them next week.

Edit: Backup branch restored successfully, thank you for your help.

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