https://negativesign.com/categories/howto/ Recent content in Howto on negativesign Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us copyright © 2011-2020 Andrew Catellier Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:57:00 -0600 https://negativesign.com/blog/2013/07/02/quick-and-dirty-redundancy-cloning-a-gitlab-server/ Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:57:00 -0600 https://negativesign.com/blog/2013/07/02/quick-and-dirty-redundancy-cloning-a-gitlab-server/ I run a GitLab server that I use to collaborate with coworkers.1 It’s a custom-built machine with a RAID, lots of memory, redundant power supplies, and is running Ubuntu. Every day, a simple cron script to makes a backup copy of the data on the server to another machine. The script looks something like this: #!/bin/sh cd /home/gitlab/gitlab sudo -u gitlab -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create RAILS_ENV=production rsync -avrcpt /home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/backups/ user@remotemachine:/path/to/gitlabtars rsync -avrcpt /home/git/repositories/ user@remotemachine:/path/to/barerepos This script copies a GitLab-friendly backup file to a remote machine and syncs bare Git repositories to a different place on the same remote machine (just in case GitLab goes out of style).