I am using Gitlab 12.3.1 on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 4GB with Raspbian 10. Before upgrading to the latest version, I want to backup to an external USB stick mounted in mnt/git_backup/. The location is adjusted accordingly in the gitlab configuration.
When running sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create STRATEGY=copy --trace the process aborts as soon as the repositories are to be dumped. Output:
** Invoke gitlab:backup:create (first_time)
** Invoke gitlab_environment (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute gitlab_environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:create
** Invoke gitlab:backup:db:create (first_time)
** Invoke gitlab_environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:db:create
2021-03-07 14:04:34 +0100 -- Dumping database ...
Dumping PostgreSQL database gitlabhq_production ... [DONE]
2021-03-07 14:04:37 +0100 -- done
** Invoke gitlab:backup:repo:create (first_time)
** Invoke gitlab_environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:repo:create
2021-03-07 14:04:37 +0100 -- Dumping repositories ...
rake aborted!
Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted @ apply2files - /mnt/git_backup/gitlab_application_data/repositories
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/fileutils.rb:237:in `chmod'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/fileutils.rb:237:in `fu_mkdir'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/fileutils.rb:175:in `block in mkdir'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/fileutils.rb:174:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/fileutils.rb:174:in `mkdir'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/backup/repository.rb:146:in `prepare'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/backup/repository.rb:15:in `dump'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/tasks/gitlab/backup.rake:88:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `block in execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:214:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/monitor.rb:230:in `mon_synchronize'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:194:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:183:in `invoke'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/tasks/gitlab/backup.rake:11:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `block in execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:273:in `execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:214:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.6.0/monitor.rb:230:in `mon_synchronize'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:194:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/task.rb:183:in `invoke'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in `invoke_task'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block in top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:125:in `run_with_threads'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:110:in `top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:83:in `block in run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:186:in `standard_exception_handling'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/lib/rake/application.rb:80:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/rake:23:in `load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/rake:23:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:74:in `load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:74:in `kernel_load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:28:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli.rb:463:in `exec'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:387:in `dispatch'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli.rb:27:in `dispatch'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in `start'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/cli.rb:18:in `start'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/exe/bundle:30:in `block in <top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:124:in `with_friendly_errors'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-1.17.3/exe/bundle:22:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => gitlab:backup:repo:create
The output of sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info
System information
System: Raspbian 10
Current User: git
Using RVM: no
Ruby Version: 2.6.3p62
Gem Version: 2.7.9
Bundler Version:1.17.3
Rake Version: 12.3.2
Redis Version: 3.2.12
Git Version: 2.22.0
Sidekiq Version:5.2.7
Go Version: unknown
GitLab information
Version: 12.3.1
Revision: 3440d0f6100
Directory: /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter: PostgreSQL
DB Version: 10.9
URL: http://xyz
HTTP Clone URL: http://xyz/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL: git@xyz:some-group/some-project.git
Using LDAP: no
Using Omniauth: yes
Omniauth Providers:
GitLab Shell
Version: 10.0.0
Repository storage paths:
- default: /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
GitLab Shell path: /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell
Git: /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git
After googeling the error message it could be an ownership error. Running ls -l in mnt/git_backup/gitlab_application_data results in:
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Mar 6 19:06 db
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Mar 6 19:06 repositories
I tried to change the ownership to git with sudo chown -R git repositories/ but this results in chown: changing ownership of 'repositories/': Operation not permitted
From this point on I don’t know how to proceed on this issue and would appreciate any help