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* use `git` user
* formatting cleanup
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@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ However, it is not possible to resume an interrupted tar pipe: if
that happens then all data must be copied again.
```
# As the git user
tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\
tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf -
sudo -u git sh -c 'tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\
tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf -'
```
If you want to see progress, replace `-xf` with `-xvf`.
@ -36,9 +35,8 @@ You can also use a tar pipe to copy data to another server. If your
can pipe the data through SSH.
```
# As the git user
tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\
ssh git@newserver tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf -
sudo -u git sh -c 'tar -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -cf - -- . |\
ssh git@newserver tar -C /mnt/gitlab/repositories -xf -'
```
If you want to compress the data before it goes over the network
@ -53,9 +51,8 @@ is either already installed on your system or easily installable
via apt, yum etc.
```
# As the 'git' user
rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \
/mnt/gitlab/repositories
sudo -u git sh -c 'rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \
/mnt/gitlab/repositories'
```
The `/.` in the command above is very important, without it you can
@ -68,9 +65,8 @@ If the 'git' user on your source system has SSH access to the target
server you can send the repositories over the network with rsync.
```
# As the 'git' user
rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \
git@newserver:/mnt/gitlab/repositories
sudo -u git sh -c 'rsync -a --delete /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/. \
git@newserver:/mnt/gitlab/repositories'
```
## Thousands of Git repositories: use one rsync per repository
@ -125,7 +121,7 @@ sudo -u git -H sh -c 'bundle exec rake gitlab:list_repos > /home/git/transfer-lo
Now we can start the transfer. The command below is idempotent, and
the number of jobs done by GNU Parallel should converge to zero. If it
does not some repositories listed in all-repos-1234.txt may have been
does not, some repositories listed in `all-repos-1234.txt` may have been
deleted/renamed before they could be copied.
```
@ -155,8 +151,8 @@ cat /home/git/transfer-logs/* | sort | uniq -u |\
Suppose you have already done one sync that started after 2015-10-1 12:00 UTC.
Then you might only want to sync repositories that were changed via GitLab
_after_ that time. You can use the 'SINCE' variable to tell 'rake
gitlab:list_repos' to only print repositories with recent activity.
_after_ that time. You can use the `SINCE` variable to tell `rake
gitlab:list_repos` to only print repositories with recent activity.
```
# Omnibus