On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Benjamin Podszun < benjamin.pods...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I want to know: How do you backup the whole stack? > > I could easily drop nightly pulls for each repository on a tape. > I could easily backup the database the same way. > That should be sufficient, just keep your configuration files too. > But - is that enough? And how would I reconstruct the environment? The > repositories have cryptic (hashed) names. > The database contains the hashed paths for the repositories, mapping things like "gitorious/mainline.git" to the hashed names. > The database has overlaps with the filesystem (it contains the ssh > keys, but what happens if the git user's authenticated_keys2 is empty > because I just set the machine up again?) where I can see potential > problems. > Extracting the ssh keys from the database to the authorized_keys file is done by the ssh_key_processor script, which again calls out to the SshKey class. Provided you have the poller script running, entering something along the lines of: SshKey.all.each(&:publish_creation_message) would put messages on the message queue that, when processed, would add the key to the authorized_keys file. > I wouldn't know how to import source and wiki content back into > gitorious, without a lot of struggle and cursing. Did anyone something > like that before? Is there a guide out there, that I missed? Any > scripts, experiences, ideas? I'd hope that the gitorious.org service > has something like this in place. How is it done? > The wikis are Git repositories too, so restoring the database and repositories from a backup to the same file system locations as before should "just work". Just make sure you keep a backup of your configuration files too, in case you forget... Regards, Marius -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To post to this group, send email to gitori...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gitorious?hl=en.
