Project meta-data gets lost after dump restore

[alansemenov]

After taking a dump and importing it into another instance, project meta-data gets lost on the way. Repositories and data get restored fine, but project meta-data is missing, so projects are not shown anywhere in the UI.

Before dump (target server):

After dump (source server):

[sigdestad]

Wow, how is this possible? This is just a regular node?

[alansemenov]

Good question... It's either not included in the dump or (most likely) isn't restored correctly.

[rymsha]

Wow, how is this possible? This is just a regular node?

Because dumps-load uses high level Repository API to deal with creation of repositories to avoid reading metadata directly from the dump.

Some facts:

• Dumps taken on 7.3.0 are not corrupted. Problem appears on load.
• If Projects feature was not used, users won't notice the problem.