Official site for old omnibus version (v7.9.1)

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Are old gitlab packages available for download on an official site?

I am looking for an old omnibus package (v7.9.1), for Debian. Through google I found https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce , which has old versions, but not the one I am looking for. I also found https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/-/www-gitlab-com/-/jobs/1554152/artifacts/public/downloads/archives/index.html which has 7.9.1, but it does not look like a proper archive site.

Răzvan

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Why in the world would you ever want to download suck an old version?

Also, I don’t think you can get those release packages anymore. I don’t know of any public GL repository mirrors which could potentially still have the requested version.

Anyhow, you should really just use a newer one.

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Because I need to migrate such an old version to a new server (including the data), and backup/restore works only if the target has the same version as the source.

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I suggest the following;

  • Make a full backup (if running in a VM, make a full VM backup or even VM clone if possible, else stop all Gitlab services, sync the disk IO, compress all gitlab data (files, database, configuration, etc…) to a backup file and rsync it to another server)
  • Upgrade the gitlab instance to a newer version and then migrate it to another VM

I personally see this as the best solution.

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In the end I found another way to solve my problem: I had a downloaded omnibus rpm package lying around on the old machine, and I built a Docker image for it, so that I can run it on a Debian machine. I used the Dockerfile from v8 as inspiration. I wasn’t sure if it would work, but it did.
Docker, the rpm package that someone didn’t delete, and gitlab beeing open source saved me. Thank you.