gitea: [doc] ./gitea dump doesn't allows to specify backup destination

I like gitea dump because it allows to backup everything into a single file, but I find it difficult to automate (weekly cron job) because it’s doesn’t allows to specify the exact destination of the backup (to copy it elsewhere for example).

That leaves us with the (not pretty) option to parse the output to get the zip name… something like gitea dump --destination /path/to/zip would be great.

Sorry not a go developer, if not I will simply send a PR for this (yeps it’s a lame excuse, I know =)

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments: 19 (10 by maintainers)

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I recently tried tackling this using cron on my debian machine, but I had no luck. However, I found great sucess using a systemd service/timer and setting the WorkingDirectory to wherever you like.

The service file:

[Unit]
Description=Gitea Dump

[Service]
Type=simple
User=git
Group=git
WorkingDirectory=/var/gitea/backup
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gitea dump -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
Environment=USER=git HOME=/home/git GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Timer:

[Unit]
Description=Daily Gitea Dump

[Timer]
# See systemd.time(7) for time format
OnCalendar=*-*-* 05:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

And the output of /var/gitea/backup:

$ ls /var/gitea/backup
gitea-dump-1529562686.zip

The-King-of-Toasters on Jun 21, 2018

--target is not documented in https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/backup-and-restore/

This is not yet documented

julian-poidevin on May 19, 2020

./gitea dump 2>&1 >/dev/null | awk 'END {print $NF}' (just in case somebody wonders how to get it)

vizcay on Aug 31, 2017

So it looks like this has been implemented with: –file name, -f name: Name of the dump file with will be created. Optional. (default: gitea-dump-[timestamp].zip).

I guess you can close this issue? And to anyone else using the AWK trick from above: that doesn’t work anymore.

AllTaken on Jan 23, 2020

--target is not documented in https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/backup-and-restore/

nodiscc on Nov 20, 2019

Should be easy enough to change --target to take a filename instead of a directory 😃

bkcsoft on Sep 4, 2017

--work-dir is also not documented (https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/9100)

nodiscc on Jun 1, 2020

@lunny I was just mentioning the missing documentation, in addition to the feature request discussed here - I think it’s a good opportunity to fix the documentation. I don’t think --target accepts a destination filename (only a directory).

I would appreciate this change, because I run dumps from a cron job and the destination directory ends up cluttered with daily dumps.

But maybe some people prefer the old behavior - in this case there could be 2 separate options (--destdir --destfile), or we could just resort to --destfile /var/backups/gitea/gitea-dump-$(date +%s)

nodiscc on Nov 26, 2019