Backup GitLab to DigitalOcean Spaces

BACKUP.md

Backup GitLab to DigitalOcean Spaces

GitLab uses Fog to communicate with various object storage services when running backups. Fog works with S3 as well as S3-compatible services like Spaces. The key difference is that you need to explictly set the endpoint for non-S3 services. If you are using the "ominbus" GitLab packages, you would need to add the following to /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:

gitlab_rails['backup_upload_connection'] = {
  'provider'              => 'AWS',
  'region'                => 'nyc3',
  'aws_access_key_id'     => 'YOUR_SPACES_KEYY',
  'aws_secret_access_key' => 'YOUR_SPACES_SECRET',
  'endpoint'              => 'https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com'
}
gitlab_rails['backup_upload_remote_directory'] = 'name-of-my-space'

After making that addition, GitLab must be reconfigured for the change to take effect:

gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Finally, you can run a backup with:

gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create

See the full GitLab "Uploading backups to a remote (cloud) storage" docs for more info.

im getting error 403 everytime i try to backup

Do you have the full error message? A 403 could mean a number of things, but the first thing I'd double check is that the credentials are correct.

I am getting error code: 411 Length Required
Any idea?

I'm also getting 403s. On gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest (as of writing). Error code according to response body is SignatureDoesNotMatch. I've tried regenerating Spaces access keys @ DigitalOcean, still no luck.

Try to include 'aws_signature_version' => 2, it may fix it. In my case, I got more exceptions.
I have a ticket open at:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4419