[Hamara-devel] Gitlab Upgrade

[Amardeep Singh]

at bottom :-

On Tuesday 31 March 2015 07:42 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> On 3/31/15, Gurvinder Dadyala <gurvinder at techblue.co.uk> wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
>> Dear Team
>>
>> Gitlab software update is available and is need to be implemented. We
>> are currently using version GitLab 7.5.1 36679b5. We also need to setup
>> Gitlab backup either weekly or monthly as well.
>>
>> Lots of fixes have been done to version 7.9.0 and now they have released
>> v7.9.1. We are on v7.5 right now and I guess we should update it because
>> sometimes after particular number of releases, direct upgrade will not
>> be possible.
>>
>> Change-log can be checked here
>> <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELOG>.
>>
>> Any suggestions.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gurvinder Dadyala
>> Senior System Administrator
>> Email- gurvinder at techblue.co.uk
>> Contact No - 0845-0047-142
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>>
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> Hi Gurvinder,
> I went through the changelog couple of times, apart from 'Replace
> highlight.js with rouge-fork rugments (Stefan Tatschner)' which is in
> 7.8.0 didn't see anything which could disrupt the process.
>
> Note - I am not much aware about Gitlab's internal architecture, this
> is just what I could discern from reading the changelog.
The upgrade path is not straight. Looking at number of changes its safe
to take backup and do the upgrade.

Though we are not using any extra functions of gitlab, I am assuming
should be fine.
>
> As far as backups are concerned, it has to be at least weekly,
> although there are FOSS solutions which can do daily to hourly backups
> as well. As we are in the beginning of hamara, we cannot afford to
> lose a month's work should something happen, so at the least weekly
> backups are more than necessary. Have you tried BTRFS with RAID 6 (a
> suggestion) ? That is supposed to be a good solution.
All hamara infra is hosted on SAN (RAID 10), all are virtual nodes. In
terms of backup just taking snapshot of LVM on SAN will do the job here.

Thanks,
Amardeep
>
> Rest is upto you or perhaps Vikas can also advise.

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AMARDEEP SINGH
Hamara Architect
Team Hamara Linux