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authorAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2017-10-30 13:43:54 +0200
committerAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2017-10-30 13:43:54 +0200
commit5e0308d5b920f4210f2f00da1e8f3e95f2ce1ab4 (patch)
tree68cfebbb13fadbd46e35232f348e7ea3c6a9e2ce
parent3c454b80ef14f975ece751049e10240adce2895f (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-5e0308d5b920f4210f2f00da1e8f3e95f2ce1ab4.tar.gz
Split S3 and Google Cloud Storage sections in backup doc
-rw-r--r--doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md142
1 files changed, 90 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md b/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md
index 2fff6ab13f1..54c3e20d61d 100644
--- a/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md
+++ b/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md
@@ -126,25 +126,6 @@ sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create SKIP=db,uploads
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create SKIP=db,uploads RAILS_ENV=production
```
-#### Using Google Cloud Storage
-
-If you want to use Google Cloud Storage to save backups, go to the storage
-settings page, select "Interoperability" and create an access key there.
-Copy "Access Key" and "Secret", fill the configurations in
-`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
-
-```ruby
-gitlab_rails['backup_upload_connection'] = {
- 'provider' => 'Google',
- 'google_storage_access_key_id' => 'Access Key',
- 'google_storage_secret_access_key' => 'Secret'
-}
-gitlab_rails['backup_upload_remote_directory'] = 'my.google.bucket'
-```
-
-Make sure you have project and bucket setting up correctly, and run
-`sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` after making the changes.
-
### Uploading backups to a remote (cloud) storage
Starting with GitLab 7.4 you can let the backup script upload the '.tar' file it creates.
@@ -155,44 +136,54 @@ In the example below we use Amazon S3 for storage, but Fog also lets you use
for AWS, Google, OpenStack Swift, Rackspace and Aliyun as well. A local driver is
[also available](#uploading-to-locally-mounted-shares).
-For omnibus packages, add the following to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
+#### Using Amazon S3
-```ruby
-gitlab_rails['backup_upload_connection'] = {
- 'provider' => 'AWS',
- 'region' => 'eu-west-1',
- 'aws_access_key_id' => 'AKIAKIAKI',
- 'aws_secret_access_key' => 'secret123'
- # If using an IAM Profile, don't configure aws_access_key_id & aws_secret_access_key
- # 'use_iam_profile' => true
-}
-gitlab_rails['backup_upload_remote_directory'] = 'my.s3.bucket'
-```
+For Omnibus GitLab packages:
+
+1. Add the following to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
+
+ ```ruby
+ gitlab_rails['backup_upload_connection'] = {
+ 'provider' => 'AWS',
+ 'region' => 'eu-west-1',
+ 'aws_access_key_id' => 'AKIAKIAKI',
+ 'aws_secret_access_key' => 'secret123'
+ # If using an IAM Profile, don't configure aws_access_key_id & aws_secret_access_key
+ # 'use_iam_profile' => true
+ }
+ gitlab_rails['backup_upload_remote_directory'] = 'my.s3.bucket'
+ ```
+
+1. [Reconfigure GitLab] for the changes to take effect
-Make sure to run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` after editing `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` to reflect the changes.
+---
For installations from source:
-```yaml
- backup:
- # snip
- upload:
- # Fog storage connection settings, see http://fog.io/storage/ .
- connection:
- provider: AWS
- region: eu-west-1
- aws_access_key_id: AKIAKIAKI
- aws_secret_access_key: 'secret123'
- # If using an IAM Profile, leave aws_access_key_id & aws_secret_access_key empty
- # ie. aws_access_key_id: ''
- # use_iam_profile: 'true'
- # The remote 'directory' to store your backups. For S3, this would be the bucket name.
- remote_directory: 'my.s3.bucket'
- # Turns on AWS Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys for backups, this is optional
- # encryption: 'AES256'
- # Specifies Amazon S3 storage class to use for backups, this is optional
- # storage_class: 'STANDARD'
-```
+1. Edit `home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml`:
+
+ ```yaml
+ backup:
+ # snip
+ upload:
+ # Fog storage connection settings, see http://fog.io/storage/ .
+ connection:
+ provider: AWS
+ region: eu-west-1
+ aws_access_key_id: AKIAKIAKI
+ aws_secret_access_key: 'secret123'
+ # If using an IAM Profile, leave aws_access_key_id & aws_secret_access_key empty
+ # ie. aws_access_key_id: ''
+ # use_iam_profile: 'true'
+ # The remote 'directory' to store your backups. For S3, this would be the bucket name.
+ remote_directory: 'my.s3.bucket'
+ # Turns on AWS Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys for backups, this is optional
+ # encryption: 'AES256'
+ # Specifies Amazon S3 storage class to use for backups, this is optional
+ # storage_class: 'STANDARD'
+ ```
+
+1. [Restart GitLab] for the changes to take effect
If you are uploading your backups to S3 you will probably want to create a new
IAM user with restricted access rights. To give the upload user access only for
@@ -245,6 +236,50 @@ with the name of your bucket:
}
```
+#### Using Google Cloud Storage
+
+If you want to use Google Cloud Storage to save backups, you'll have to create
+an access key from the Google console first:
+
+1. Go to the storage settings page https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/settings
+1. Select "Interoperability" and create an access key
+1. Make note of the "Access Key" and "Secret" and replace them in the
+ configurations below
+1. Make sure you already have a bucket created
+
+For Omnibus GitLab packages:
+
+1. Edit `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
+
+ ```ruby
+ gitlab_rails['backup_upload_connection'] = {
+ 'provider' => 'Google',
+ 'google_storage_access_key_id' => 'Access Key',
+ 'google_storage_secret_access_key' => 'Secret'
+ }
+ gitlab_rails['backup_upload_remote_directory'] = 'my.google.bucket'
+ ```
+
+1. [Reconfigure GitLab] for the changes to take effect
+
+---
+
+For installations from source:
+
+1. Edit `home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml`:
+
+ ```yaml
+ backup:
+ upload:
+ connection:
+ provider: 'Google'
+ google_storage_access_key_id: 'Access Key'
+ google_storage_secret_access_key: 'Secret'
+ remote_directory: 'my.google.bucket'
+ ```
+
+1. [Restart GitLab] for the changes to take effect
+
### Uploading to locally mounted shares
You may also send backups to a mounted share (`NFS` / `CIFS` / `SMB` / etc.) by
@@ -573,3 +608,6 @@ The rake task runs this as the `gitlab` user which does not have the superuser a
Those objects have no influence on the database backup/restore but they give this annoying warning.
For more information see similar questions on postgresql issue tracker[here](http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/201110220712.30886.adrian.klaver@gmail.com) and [here](http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2039.1177339749@sss.pgh.pa.us) as well as [stack overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4368789/error-must-be-owner-of-language-plpgsql).
+
+[reconfigure GitLab]: ../administration/restart_gitlab.md#omnibus-gitlab-reconfigure
+[restart GitLab]: ../administration/restart_gitlab.md#installations-from-source