GitLab CI auto deploy will remove users uploaded files

GitLab CI/CD
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Hi there,

I have configured GitLab CI to deploy Laravel project to the server but I have one problem: In my project users can upload files to their profile but when I deploy the project users uploaded file will be deleted

This is my configuration file

  deploy_release:
    stage: deploy
  image: tetraweb/php:7.1
  before_script:
    - 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
    - '[[ -f /.dockerenv ]] && echo -e "Host *ntStrictHostKeyChecking nonn" > ~/.ssh/config'
    - ssh-add <(echo "$PRIVATE_KEY")
    - ssh-keyscan -H 'example.com' >> $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts
    - apt-get install rsync
  script:
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "mkdir -p ~/public_html/dev"
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "mkdir -p ~/public_html/dev_tmp"
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "mkdir -p ~/public_html/dev_old"
    - rsync -rav -e ssh --exclude='.git/' --exclude='.gitlab-ci.yml' --delete-excluded ./ example@example.com:~/public_html/dev_tmp
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "mv ~/public_html/dev ~/public_html/dev_old" 
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "mv ~/public_html/dev_tmp ~/public_html/dev"
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "cp ~/gasha_laraconfig.sh ~/public_html/dev/laraconfig.sh"
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "~/public_html/dev/laraconfig.sh"
    - ssh -p22 example@example.com "rm -rf ~/public_html/dev_old"
  only:
    - release

Thanks in advance.