Commit 8d569f9f authored by Lin Jen-Shin's avatar Lin Jen-Shin

Document that we need rsync for backing up

parent f10fb6c2
...@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ up-to-date and install it. ...@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ up-to-date and install it.
Install the required packages (needed to compile Ruby and native extensions to Ruby gems): Install the required packages (needed to compile Ruby and native extensions to Ruby gems):
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libre2-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl openssh-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev logrotate python-docutils pkg-config cmake sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libre2-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl openssh-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev logrotate rsync python-docutils pkg-config cmake
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) doesn't have the `libre2-dev` package available, but Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) doesn't have the `libre2-dev` package available, but
you can [install re2 manually](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Install). you can [install re2 manually](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Install).
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...@@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ from one server to another is through backup restore. ...@@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ from one server to another is through backup restore.
GitLab provides a simple command line interface to backup your whole installation, GitLab provides a simple command line interface to backup your whole installation,
and is flexible enough to fit your needs. and is flexible enough to fit your needs.
### Requirements
If you're using GitLab with the Omnibus package, you're all set. If you
installed GitLab from source, make sure the following packages are installed:
* rsync
If you're using Ubuntu, you could run:
```
sudo apt-get install -y rsync
```
### Backup timestamp ### Backup timestamp
>**Note:** >**Note:**
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...@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ sudo service gitlab stop ...@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ sudo service gitlab stop
### 2. Backup ### 2. Backup
NOTE: If you installed GitLab from source, make sure `rsync` is installed.
```bash ```bash
cd /home/git/gitlab cd /home/git/gitlab
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