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| author | Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me> | 2015-12-18 13:41:33 +0200 |
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| committer | James Edwards-Jones <jedwardsjones@gitlab.com> | 2017-01-31 22:53:56 +0000 |
| commit | 9ff381c492695bf9b76b27047bd0b38a70a4daac (patch) | |
| tree | 64ba8d2847a7402121785fd04dd3c2a858650ff5 /doc/raketasks | |
| parent | a691e9f494c7a661f9fa8ba199dbe6180d8d0329 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-9ff381c492695bf9b76b27047bd0b38a70a4daac.tar.gz | |
Add pages to excluded directories in backup task [ci skip]
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diff --git a/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md b/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md index f6b4db71b44..0fb69d63dbe 100644 --- a/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md +++ b/doc/raketasks/backup_restore.md @@ -84,6 +84,29 @@ Deleting tmp directories...[DONE] Deleting old backups... [SKIPPING] ``` +## Exclude specific directories from the backup + +You can choose what should be backed up by adding the environment variable `SKIP`. +The available options are: + +* `db` +* `uploads` (attachments) +* `repositories` +* `builds` (CI build output logs) +* `artifacts` (CI build artifacts) +* `lfs` (LFS objects) +* `pages` (pages content) + +Use a comma to specify several options at the same time: + +``` +# use this command if you've installed GitLab with the Omnibus package +sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create SKIP=db,uploads + +# if you've installed GitLab from source +sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create SKIP=db,uploads RAILS_ENV=production +``` + ## Upload backups to remote (cloud) storage Starting with GitLab 7.4 you can let the backup script upload the '.tar' file it creates. |