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stage: Enablement
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group: Database
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Importing a database dump into a staging environment
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Sometimes it is useful to import the database from a production environment
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into a staging environment for testing. The procedure below assumes you have
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SSH and `sudo` access to both the production environment and the staging VM.
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**Destroy your staging VM** when you are done with it. It is important to avoid
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data leaks.
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On the staging VM, add the following line to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` to speed up
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large database imports.
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```shell
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# On STAGING
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echo "postgresql['checkpoint_segments'] = 64" | sudo tee -a /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
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sudo touch /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-reconfigure
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sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
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sudo gitlab-ctl stop puma
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sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq
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```
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Next, we let the production environment stream a compressed SQL dump to our
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local machine via SSH, and redirect this stream to a `psql` client on the staging
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VM.
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```shell
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# On LOCAL MACHINE
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ssh -C gitlab.example.com sudo -u gitlab-psql /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/pg_dump -Cc gitlabhq_production |\
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ssh -C staging-vm sudo -u gitlab-psql /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/psql -d template1
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```
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## Recreating directory structure
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If you need to re-create some directory structure on the staging server you can
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use this procedure.
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First, on the production server, create a list of directories you want to
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re-create.
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```shell
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# On PRODUCTION
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(umask 077; sudo find /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 > directories.txt)
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```
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Copy `directories.txt` to the staging server and create the directories there.
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```shell
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# On STAGING
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sudo -u git xargs -0 mkdir -p < directories.txt
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```
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