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    gitlab: Do away with generating tarball backups · 0643978a
    Evangelos Foutras authored
    Using GitLab's official backup tool takes too much time and, more
    importantly, space; /srv/gitlab is a bit over 430G but backing it
    up nearly exhausts its 1TB volume.
    
    As we're creating btrfs snapshots and backing those up with borg, it
    seems unnecessary to also create tarballs of the same data. GitLab's
    documentation mentions snapshots as a viable backup strategy, and to
    the restored system it should seem like recovering from a power loss.
    
    [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore#alternative-backup-strategies
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