Hello Carlos (& Bilal),
backing up a Gitorious instance entails the following:
1: Dump the mysql database state to file (which contains metadata about
users, projects, repos etc)
2: Make a recursive copy of the directory where repos are stored (as you
have already mentioned)
3: Ssh keys of all users are stored in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for the
users that owns/runs the Gitorious instance, so grab that as well (~ e.g
HOME is the user that owns your Gitorious file structure/services).
4: The configuration of your local Gitorious instance is of course not
in our git repos and rebuilding your own config after disaster strikes
can be a huge pain, so backup the files you have touched/created under
<GITORIOUS_ROOT>/config.
That should cover most bases; restoring = simply copying/importing the
data captured above to its original locations.
I don't have a standard script for this to throw over to you, since the
backup/restore procedure differs based on the config/size of each
Gitorious instance, but you're right - small internal installations
should be able to dump (and restore) the whole backup/state to/from a
single tarball.
cheers,
Thomas
On 07/26/2012 12:26 AM, Carlos wrote:
I have the same question, which I will divide into parts:
A. What is the process for "dumping" the full state of a gitorious
instance?
B. What is the process of (re)loading a dump to overwrite the state
of a gitorious instance?
My focus is disaster recovery. So just cloning the project repos is
not enough. I need the user database, pending queues, merge requests,
wikis, everything.
The solution for dumping state does not need to be GUI. In fact it
would be better if it were a script which could run from a cron job
every night. Ideally the result would be a single file which I would
scp to offsite storage in case the building burns down.
Thanks!
On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:55:32 AM UTC-7, Bilal MK wrote:
Hello,
Anybody please outline proper backup and restore steps?
Thanks
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Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
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