Create a backup from GitLab

• Read: Back up and restore overview

Warning: GitLab does not back up any configuration files, SSL certificates, or system files. You are highly advised to read about storing configuration files.

sudo cp /etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb /var/opt/gitlab/backups/
gitlab-backup create
ls -lh /var/opt/gitlab/backups/

Configuration files:

• /etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json
• /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

Destination folder:

• /var/opt/gitlab/backups/

gitlab-ctl stop puma && gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq

/opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-backup create
/opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-backup create STRATEGY=copy

• Database
• Attachments
• Git repositories data
• CI/CD job output logs
• CI/CD job artifacts
• LFS objects
• Container Registry images
• GitLab Pages content

Related

• Upgrade GitLab
• GitLab logs
• zstd
• pg_dump

gitlab-rails runner 'st = Sidekiq::Stats.new; puts "enqueued: #{st.enqueued}, busy: #{st.workers_size}, scheduled: #{st.scheduled_size}, retries: #{st.retry_size}"'

/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/artifacts/

See also

• Gitlab backups, gitlab-backup [create | restore ], /var/opt/gitlab/backups/, /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-backup
• GitLab logs
• GitLab logs: production.log, application.log, gitlab-ctl status