Create a backup from GitLab

• Read: Back up and restore GitLab

Warning: GitLab does not back up any configuration files, SSL certificates, or system files. You are highly advised to read about 
storing configuration files.

/var/opt/gitlab/backups/

/opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-backup create
/opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-backup create STRATEGY=copy

• Database
• Attachments
• Git repositories data
• CI/CD job output logs
• CI/CD job artifacts
• LFS objects
• Container Registry images
• GitLab Pages content

Configuration files:

• /etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json
• /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

Logs:

• GitLab logs

See also

• gitlab-backup [create | restore ] /var/opt/gitlab/backups/
• GitLab: Install GitLab, Upgrade GitLab Gitlab runner (changelog), gitlab.rb, .gitlab/, gitlab-ci.yml, gitlab-ctl, gitlab-rake, gitlab-backup, gitlab-rails, GitLab editions, GitLab Security Dashboards, GitLab environments, GitLab environment variables, Auto DevOps, permissions, GitLab Pages, gitlab-rails, GitLab scheduled pipelines, GitLab logs, GitLab changelog , GitLab Release CLI, GitLab Omnibus, GitLab Advanced Search, GitLab container registry, GitLab infrastructure registry