Installation is currently Gitea 1.16.8, native install on Ubuntu server (no containers). Installed per the instructions and all works fine.
However, following the instructions (and various threads) on backing up I just can’t make it work - the backup instructions are simply:
Switch to the user running Gitea:
su git. Run./gitea dump -c /path/to/app.iniin the Gitea installation directory.
So, I do exactly that and this is the result:
$ systemctl stop gitea
$ cd /usr/local/bin/
$ sudo -u git gitea dump -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...dules/setting/log.go:287:newLogService() [I] Gitea v1.16.8 built with GNU Make 4.1, go1.18.2 : bindata, sqlite, sqlite_unlock_notify
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...dules/setting/log.go:334:newLogService() [I] Gitea Log Mode: Console(Console:)
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...dules/setting/log.go:250:generateNamedLogger() [I] Router Log: Console(console:)
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/setting/cache.go:78:newCacheService() [I] Cache Service Enabled
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/setting/cache.go:93:newCacheService() [I] Last Commit Cache Service Enabled
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/setting/session.go:75:newSessionService() [I] Session Service Enabled
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/storage/storage.go:171:initAttachments() [I] Initialising Attachment storage with type:
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/storage/local.go:46:NewLocalStorage() [I] Creating new Local Storage at /usr/local/bin/data/attachments
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/storage/storage.go:165:initAvatars() [I] Initialising Avatar storage with type:
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/storage/local.go:46:NewLocalStorage() [I] Creating new Local Storage at /usr/local/bin/data/avatars
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/storage/storage.go:183:initRepoAvatars() [I] Initialising Repository Avatar storage with type:
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/storage/local.go:46:NewLocalStorage() [I] Creating new Local Storage at /usr/local/bin/data/repo-avatars
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/storage/storage.go:177:initLFS() [I] Initialising LFS storage with type:
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/storage/local.go:46:NewLocalStorage() [I] Creating new Local Storage at /var/lib/gitea/data/lfs
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...s/storage/storage.go:189:initRepoArchives() [I] Initialising Repository Archive storage with type:
2024/10/17 07:54:00 ...les/storage/local.go:46:NewLocalStorage() [I] Creating new Local Storage at /usr/local/bin/data/repo-archive
Unable to open gitea-dump-1729151640.zip: open gitea-dump-1729151640.zip: permission denied
2024/10/17 07:54:00 cmd/dump.go:149:fatal() [F] Unable to open gitea-dump-1729151640.zip: open gitea-dump-1729151640.zip: permission denied
I have tried various suggestions found online including passing -work-path /tmp/ and running from inside /tmp/ instead to no success - in that case I get a different error but still permisisons related:
2024/10/16 15:15:07 cmd/dump.go:315:runDump() [I] Packing data directory.../tmp/data
Failed to include log: open /var/log/kern.log.3.gz: permission denied
2024/10/16 15:15:08 cmd/dump.go:149:fatal() [F] Failed to include log: open /var/log/kern.log.3.gz: permission denied
I wanted to check I’m not missing something or doing something wrong here before I start messing with permissions etc.