Change Default Backup location Path in GitLab on Ubuntu 18

Video Tutorial -https://youtu.be/cJ5mOsc1vJM

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GitLab is an open source GIT repository manager based on Rails and developed by GitLab Inc. It is a web-based GIT repository manager that allows your team to work on code, perform feature requests, track bugs, and test and implement applications. GitLab provides features such as a wiki, issue tracking, code reviews, activity feeds, and merge management. It is able to host multiple projects.

Offcial Website -https://docs.gitlab.com/

Backup Create documentation-

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html#creating-a-backup-of-the-gitlab-system

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Testing Environment:

Ubuntu 18.04.LTS Bionic              Hostname - www.yourdomain.com  - ip Address - 192.168.1.40

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mkdir /mnt/new-backups

sudo gedit  /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb &>/dev/null

gitlab_rails['backup_path'] = " /mnt/new-backups"

gitlab-ctl reconfigure

gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create

cd /mnt/new-backups/ ; ls -l

gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info

gitlab-rake gitlab:check SANITIZE=true

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