Greetings friends.
In an unfortunate event, I lost my git repository for my annex. 😬
The only thing left is the annex files in an S3 bucket.
Is it possible to recover the repository?
Is it possible to recover the files?
All the files in S3 bucket are in this format: GPGHMACSHA1--000b36e47d7ebd51f5ca2b8d294dea2d530c79c8
I'd appreciate any help! 🙏
Not a chance. git-annex uses symetric encryption, storing the key in the git-annex branch. See encryption.
Are you sure you don't have other clones of the repo?
How exactly did you loose the repo? Maybe its possible to recover it?
@Lukey is probably right. The one exception would be if the S3 remote was set up with encryption=pubkey. Then the files stored in the bucket would be simply encrypted to your gpg public key, and could be decrypted without needing any other information that you've lost.
(The filenames would still not be able to be recovered.)