How can I backup my repositories? about gitness HOT 5 CLOSED

Git repositories are stored on disk at /data inside the container. Based on the configuration you posted, you are mounting /data (inside the container) to /home/gitness/data (outside the container). So you would backup /home/gitness/data on your host to backup Gitness. To restore a Gitness backup, you would simply restore the contents of the disk back to /home/gitness/data

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You should be able to backup your data by copying the contents of “/home/gitness/data” in your host (not the container).

Please read :
https://docs.gitness.com/administration/configuration
https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/

I am not sure if gitness already has this functionality on the UI/CLI, but and export or import field under the Administration tab / CLI flag could be added to add this extra functionality, it’s a easy implementation.

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It's not there, I want to have access to the source code of the projects, is that possible?

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I've been backing up /home/gitness nightly.. Now its the moment of truth to recover from backup.. gonna test today and report back if above worked.. I'm particularly curious since my backup medium (hetzner storage box) does not support symlinks for some reason..

mv: cannot create symbolic link '/root/backup/08-02-2024/repos/f1/in/chorootih83xv8es9ix26r2c74pq4w4b2x9cx3.git/hooks/pre-receive': Operation not supported

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I can confirm it works! Just needed to restart container after moving back up sqlite db and repos to /home/gitness!

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