Published a new Branch Versioned Layer, Can't access existing Versions
I had the unfortunate experience of the server I run Utility Network off of tanking yesterday. I'm waiting for Esri tech support to get back to me, and in the meantime I'm standing up replacement services on another machine so we can get back to work.
When I publish the UN Feature Service, I'm able to connect, but I don't see the existing branches. Looking at the relevant table in SQL Server Management Studio, I can see that the versions still exist, but they specify that they're related to the UN Feature Service that is currently out of commission.
My question is: is there a way to access them from the new feature service? And if not, will I be causing new and more interesting problems by creating new versions off the new feature service? If I can't get the old service back up and running, I'll also have to figure out how to reconcile and remove the old versions, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
PS I know disaster recovery tools would have made this all much easier. It turns out my automated disaster recovery backup process had been failing for at least a month. So, PSA to check on your automated processes!
