gitlab-backup: Set GZIP_RSYNCABLE=yes so borg can dedup

gitlab-backup produces gzipped tarballs that cannot be meaningfully deduplicated by borg. This can be mitigated by passing --rsyncable to gzip.

The above is verified by creating two new borg repositories, adding the two most recent gitlab.archlinux.org archives to both, with the difference of re-compressing the tarballs with gzip -1 --rsyncable before adding them to the second repository.

In the first case, the 215.97 GB backup archive gets compressed and deduplicated down to 176.24 GB. With --rsyncable it gets reduced to just 12.79 GB. These numbers are for /srv/gitlab/data/backups only, but the other non-tarballed files get sufficiently deduped already.

Based on the above, I am hoping to see the borg repository for gitlab shrink over time from the current 3 TB to around 600 GB which is more manageable.

roles/borg_client/templates/backup-gitlab.sh.j2

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ echo "emptying backup directory ${backupdir}"
 # Verify that the gitlab_backupdir in ansible was defined, otherwise we will rm /* and remove the previous backup
 rm -r "${backupdir:?backup dir unset}/"*
 
-docker exec gitlab gitlab-backup create STRATEGY=copy SKIP=tar
+docker exec gitlab gitlab-backup create STRATEGY=copy SKIP=tar GZIP_RSYNCABLE=yes