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| author | Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dzaporozhets@gitlab.com> | 2015-06-16 09:33:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dzaporozhets@gitlab.com> | 2015-06-16 09:33:45 +0000 |
| commit | e840ccaf1531b604544af09b84e031eab7b4a458 (patch) | |
| tree | f6355ad69ef9ee05bd28af6deaeee73e8ed3e0ca /doc/development | |
| parent | 698f79e8b5387c1b7cfe3abafa62ab82cad5363b (diff) | |
| parent | 6000c7199e2cec97022911ea24c1a66f615f3434 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-e840ccaf1531b604544af09b84e031eab7b4a458.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'db-dump-instructions' into 'master'
Improve DB dump instructions
See merge request !1868
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diff --git a/doc/development/db_dump.md b/doc/development/db_dump.md index 4ad3bd534e0..21f1b3edecd 100644 --- a/doc/development/db_dump.md +++ b/doc/development/db_dump.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Sometimes it is useful to import the database from a production environment into a staging environment for testing. The procedure below assumes you have SSH+sudo access to both the production environment and the staging VM. +**Destroy your staging VM** when you are done with it. It is important to avoid +data leaks. + On the staging VM, add the following line to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` to speed up large database imports. @@ -12,6 +15,8 @@ large database imports. echo "postgresql['checkpoint_segments'] = 64" | sudo tee -a /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb sudo touch /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-migrations sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure +sudo gitlab-ctl stop unicorn +sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq ``` Next, we let the production environment stream a compressed SQL dump to our |