Incremental backup of gitea

jackTheStark · February 4, 2020, 7:38am

I am trying to do a daily backup of gitea. But the problem is that i have to backup the whole gitea everyday which is waste of storage.

Is there a possible way to progressively track and update the backup.

Thanks in advance.

crobarcro · February 7, 2020, 9:32am

I use a program called rdiff-backup to back up the gitea user’s home directory. It stores incremental backups so only the changes between backups need to be stored, and you can choose to have a time limit on changes etc.

arlac77 · February 7, 2020, 10:58am

What about using git itself to save the increments of the repos and additionally copy hooks & database

anon74399538 · February 8, 2020, 2:17pm

Another option is to run Borg Backup on a scheduler and dump the data in a cheap S3 bucket like:

Akito · February 9, 2020, 3:07pm

I wanted to recommend the same.

BorgBackup is king. Once you go Borg, you never go back. There is no better Backup solution.