So, 7.4 came out today and among other things, includes sending backups to remote storage like Amazon S3 storage. Here’s a quick tip or two about getting it setup. Example from my gitlab.yml: ## Backup settings backup: path: “tmp/backups” # Relative paths are relative to Rails.root (default: tmp/backups/) keep_time: 604800 # default: 0 (forever) (in seconds) …
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So I recently encountered a weird error in the Admin Dashboard of GitLab: It wasn’t a gitlab-shell error, the bin/check script ran fine. Git and Ruby at accepted versions from the rake gitlab:check command but it did show an error: GitLab Shell version >= 1.7.9 ? … FAIL. Please update gitlab-shell to 1.7.9 from Unknown …
Gitlab 6.5 was released earlier this week so naturally it was time to upgrade my dev box. But things broke. I could authenticate fine but got redirected back to the login page. Also, in the production.log it spit out: Started POST “/users/sign_in” for 1.x.x.x at 2014-01-22 11:11:58 -0500 Processing by Devise::SessionsController#create as HTML Parameters: {“utf8″=>”?”, …
Here’s some shameless self-promotion, I made a script that automates backing up the database and the repos in your GitLab install. If you find this post, feel free to use and contribute to it.
With the 5.2 version of gitlab, the bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production command complains about the current distro’s version of git: Your git bin path is “/usr/bin/git” Git version >= 1.7.10 ? … no Try fixing it: Update your git to a version >= 1.7.10 from 1.7.9 Please fix the error above and rerun the …
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