Troubleshooting backup utility

These are just my notes: use the docs, please.

You want the toolbox pod.

You can run backup-utility by hand: this is useful for testing as you first get backups set up or if you encounter a problem. Long term, you'll want this working via the cron job.

• Get a shell in a toolbox pod for this next part
  • kubectl get pods -lrelease=RELEASE_NAME,app=toolbox

$ which backup-utility
/usr/local/bin/backup-utility

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/CNG/-/blob/master/gitlab-toolbox/scripts/bin/backup-utility

Skipping stuff:

/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/backup-utility --skip db --skip registry --skip uploads --skip artifacts --skip lfs --skip packages --skip external_diffs --skip terraform_state --skip ci_secure_files

Docs

• https://docs.gitlab.com/charts/backup-restore/
• https://docs.gitlab.com/charts/backup-restore/backup.html

Issues

These are issues that I like having quick links to.

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab/-/issues/2665

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