Hello
My organisation ran a SVN repository server for 2 years. This server died in November, we didn't loose any files thanks to the local copies, but we lost the history, which is obviously a shame.
I still have my local repository copies and I'd like to know if I can regain the SVN-Log from this local copy. Usually for running svn log a server connection is required, so the question is, if it's possible to get the log without server.
Thanks for your attention
The log is not stored in local copies : those only store the current copy you're working on (i.e. the last copy you checked out).
So, no, you cannot get the SVN log from a local extraction.
Generally speaking, no: log entries are stored as so-called "Revision Properties" SVN on the server.
You can, however, try to extract log entries from caches of an SVN client you were using -- as far as I know, TortoiseSVN caches log entries somewhere. SmartSVN does that as well.