From 6000c7199e2cec97022911ea24c1a66f615f3434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Vosmaer Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:00:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve DB dump instructions --- doc/development/db_dump.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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