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What way is the best way to migrate all projects, issues, users, snippets and everything else from an old gitlab installation to a new one?

Our old machine is a bitnami VM with GitLab 6.3.0 - The commands from the backup guide are not working:

  • sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create > command gitlab-rake not found
  • sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create RAILS_ENV=production returns Could not locate Gemfile

So is it even possible to transfer the data from v6 to v7 with this? - And how?

The new machine is running on Ubuntu 14.04 with Gitlab 7.5.3 (Omnibus, .deb installation) (fresh installed, works and nothing changed)

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Referring to this link: https://community.bitnami.com/t/cannot-run-gitlab-backup-in-6-6-4/22936 you obviously running the command in the wrong directory.

The correct path, where your Gemfile is located is /opt/bitnami/apps/gitlab/htdocs.

This should create a backup in the /opt/bitnami/apps/gitlab/htdocs/tmp/backups by default (if not changed in the Gitlab config file)

This file should contain all necessary information for migrating to the new server.

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  • for migrating Gitlab to a Gitlab-Omnibus install there's a good walkthrough Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 14:51
  • Thanks, again. The previous way don't work because the versions are different. And updating v6.3 to current would be maybe one ore more questions on serverfault - if know what I mean :) Commented Dec 16, 2014 at 15:02

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