Automatically restore for Omnibus Gitlab installations from backups periodically.

restore_gitlab.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

## date:   2024-02-29
## author: duruyao@vimicro.com
## desc:   restore for 'omnibus' gitlab installations from backups

set -euo pipefail

current_date() {
  date +"%Y-%m-%d"
}

current_time() {
  date +"%Y-%m-%d %T"
}

gitlab_backups_dir="/opt/gitlab-data/gitlab-backups"
gitlab_restore_log_path="${gitlab_backups_dir}/restore.log"
gitlab_backups_data_dir="${gitlab_backups_dir}/data"
gitlab_backups_conf_dir="${gitlab_backups_dir}/conf"

{
  printf "\n\n============================== %s ==============================\n\n\n" "$(current_date)"
  printf "[INFO] restore gitlab from %s starting from [%s]\n" "${gitlab_backups_dir}" "$(current_time)"
  sudo rsync -arv "${gitlab_backups_conf_dir}"/* /etc/gitlab/
  sudo find /etc/gitlab -type f -execdir sed -i 's/10\.0\.13\.134/10.0.13.120/g' {} +
  sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
  sudo gitlab-ctl status
  sudo chown git:git -R "${gitlab_backups_data_dir}"
  sudo gitlab-ctl stop puma
  sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq
  sudo gitlab-ctl status
  sudo gitlab-backup restore BACKUP=dump force=yes
  sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
  sudo gitlab-ctl restart
  sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check SANITIZE=true
  printf "[INFO] restore gitlab from %s end at [%s]\n" "${gitlab_backups_dir}" "$(current_time)"
} &>>"${gitlab_restore_log_path}"

setup_restore_gitlab.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

## date:   2021-11-11
## author: duruyao@vimicro.com
## desc:   automatically restore for omnibus gitlab installations from backups at 14:00

set -euo pipefail

script_path="/home/duruyao/bin/gitlab-tools/restore-gitlab.sh"
auto_tasks=("0 14 * * * root ${script_path} CRON=1")

for task in "${auto_tasks[@]}"; do
  if ! grep -Fxq "${task}" /etc/crontab; then
    sudo echo "${task}" >>/etc/crontab
  fi
done

sudo service cron restart

Priority reference Back up and restore GitLab.

Scripts for backup GitLab is in https://gist.github.com/duruyao/auto-backup-gitlab.sh.

Change some values of variables before you using my scripts, such as gitlab_backups_dir, gitlab_backups_data_dir, gitlab_backups_conf_dir and more.

$ chmod +x restore-gitlab.sh auto-restore-gitlab.sh
$ sudo bash auto-restore-gitlab.sh

All logs are stored in ${gitlab_restore_log_path}.

$ tail -f /opt/gitlab-data/gitlab-backups/restore.log