Docker registry folders in gitlab installation

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I am currently working on a project migrating our local gitlab instance into a cloud provider.

I found under
/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/registry
I have 2 folders that - well seem to have some similar content but ONE has much less data:

see:

/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/registry# tree -L 4
.
├── docker
│   └── registry
│       └── v2
│           ├── blobs
│           └── repositories
├── docker-backup
│   └── registry
│       └── v2
│           └── backup
└── repositories.csv

9 directories, 1 file

I am constructing a backup by using snapshot/rclone and I wonder

  • if I can safely delete docker-backup/*
  • If I can avoid that new files will be created under docker-backup/*

thank you guys