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 · Accepted solution]

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