GitLab

Created by: AloysA

I've searched and found some old mini tutorials to move your gitlab to a new server. I'm currently using GitLab 5.0 and most of information is not applicable anymore. Can anybody point me in the right direction what I need to do? Afterwards I will summarize the steps I had to take.

Steps I already have taken:

• Copy database to new server
• Copy home/git/gitlab-satellites to new server
• Copy home/git/repositories to new server (Don't forget to chown -R git ./home/git)

Things I learned (probably some things missing).

• Take a look at the upgrade guide to your current version (so I looked at 4.2 -> 5.0). Because that guide assumes that you already have some data.
• Create the database first with rake:setup , afterwards copy the data
• Copy your authorized_keys file
• I had to disable https certificate checking (Self signed certificate on the same machine, do not just do this).
• Run gitlab-shell/support/rewrite_hooks.sh to fix your update and post_receive hooks
• Use gitlab-shell/bin/check to check the gitlab-shell setup (most importantly the connection to gitlab)

As I said, probably a lot of stuff is missing, but this might help other people who will need to move their data to a new server. Everything is up and running now en a lot faster, so migrating is possible (without losing any data) :)

It would be nice if some official guide could be make. I think it is best to use the update guide to your current version., because that guide assumes you already have data.