Backup no compres not clean

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Problem to solve

I have configured my GitLab instance v17.3.1-ee with the following values:

gitlab_rails['manage_backup_path'] = true
gitlab_rails['backup_path'] = "/backups/gitlab"
gitlab_rails['backup_archive_permissions'] = 0600
gitlab_rails['backup_compression'] = 'gzip'
gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 259200

Steps to reproduce

But when I execute:

sudo gitlab-ctl backup-etc --delete-old-backups

It runs the configuration backup:

Creating configuration backup archive: gitlab_config_1725344969_2024_09_03.tar
/etc/gitlab/
/etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json
/etc/gitlab/trusted-certs/
/etc/gitlab/ssl/
/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.castris.com.key
/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.castris.com.crt
/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.castris.com.key-staging
/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.castris.com.crt-staging
/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb~
/etc/gitlab/skip-auto-backup
/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
Configuration backup archive complete: /etc/gitlab/config_backup/gitlab_config_1725344969_2024_09_03.tar
Removing configuration backups older than 2024-08-31 06:29:29 +0000 ...
done. Removed 0 older configuration backups.

But does not work.

root@gitlab:~# ls -lisah /backups/gitlab/
total 22G
83889930 4.0K drwx------ 2 git  root 4.0K Sep  3 04:36 .
67980689    0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   20 Jul  2 04:30 ..
83941358 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 10 04:36 1723264532_2024_08_10_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939577 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 13 04:36 1723523731_2024_08_13_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939579 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 14 04:36 1723610132_2024_08_14_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939580 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 15 04:36 1723696535_2024_08_15_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939571 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 16 04:36 1723782928_2024_08_16_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939576 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 17 04:36 1723869335_2024_08_17_17.2.2-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83929932 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 20 04:36 1724128531_2024_08_20_17.3.0-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83929951 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 21 04:36 1724214934_2024_08_21_17.3.0-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83930759 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 22 04:36 1724301332_2024_08_22_17.3.0-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83939561 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 23 04:36 1724387728_2024_08_23_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83910590 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 24 04:36 1724474131_2024_08_24_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83910866 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 27 04:36 1724733333_2024_08_27_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83918886 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 28 04:36 1724819730_2024_08_28_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83912216 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 29 04:36 1724906131_2024_08_29_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83919746 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 30 04:35 1724992528_2024_08_30_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83923385 1.3G -rw------- 1 git  git  1.3G Aug 31 04:36 1725078929_2024_08_31_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
83923415 592M -rw------- 1 git  git  592M Sep  3 04:36 1725338130_2024_09_03_17.3.1-ee_gitlab_backup.tar
33589890 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 10 04:15 gitlab_config_1723263302_2024_08_10.tar
33583138 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 13 04:15 gitlab_config_1723522502_2024_08_13.tar
33583144 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 14 04:15 gitlab_config_1723608902_2024_08_14.tar
33583147 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 15 04:15 gitlab_config_1723695303_2024_08_15.tar
33583154 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 16 04:15 gitlab_config_1723781702_2024_08_16.tar
33582915 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 17 04:15 gitlab_config_1723868102_2024_08_17.tar
33583159 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 20 04:15 gitlab_config_1724127302_2024_08_20.tar
33583197 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 21 04:15 gitlab_config_1724213703_2024_08_21.tar
33584195 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 22 04:15 gitlab_config_1724300102_2024_08_22.tar
33582928 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 23 04:15 gitlab_config_1724386503_2024_08_23.tar
33592314 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 24 04:15 gitlab_config_1724472902_2024_08_24.tar
33577526 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 27 04:15 gitlab_config_1724732102_2024_08_27.tar
33600803 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 28 04:15 gitlab_config_1724818503_2024_08_28.tar
33600908 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 29 04:15 gitlab_config_1724904902_2024_08_29.tar
33597676 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 30 04:15 gitlab_config_1724991302_2024_08_30.tar
33600810 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Aug 31 04:15 gitlab_config_1725077702_2024_08_31.tar
33581034 212K -rw------- 1 root root 210K Sep  3 04:15 gitlab_config_1725336902_2024_09_03.tar

However, there are two problems:

  1. The files are not compressed.
  2. The old backups are not deleted.

What is my mistake? I don’t understand.

  • Self-managed

##Versions
v17.3.1-ee

Best regards

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I think the developers have thought that the config backups are so small that it doesn’t make sense to try to compress them. Looking at what it would include here, is will say that it’s big enough that it does make sense to compress and it is files that probably compress rather well.

I can’t explain why they have chosen not to implement cleaning of old backups.