A Gitea backup script for Docker: It creates a .zip backup of Gitea running inside Docker and moves the backup file to the current working directory.

gitea-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script creates a .zip backup of gitea running inside docker and copies the backup file to the current working directory

echo "Creating gitea backup inside docker containter ..."
docker exec -u git -it -w /tmp $(docker ps -qf "name=gitea_server_1") bash -c '/app/gitea/gitea dump -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini --file /tmp/gitea-dump.zip'

echo "Copying backup file from the container to the host machine ..."
docker cp $(docker ps -qf "name=gitea_server_1"):/tmp/gitea-dump.zip /tmp

echo "Removing backup file in container ..."
docker exec -u git -it -w /tmp $(docker ps -qf "name=gitea_server_1") bash -c 'rm /tmp/gitea-dump.zip'

echo "Renaming backup file ..."
BACKUPFILE=gitea-dump-$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M").zip
mv /tmp/gitea-dump.zip $BACKUPFILE

echo "Backup file is available: "$BACKUPFILE

echo "Done."

Thanks for this tool.

I use docker compose and I add by default the volume: ***:/data_backup:rw that permit to simply store data with:

docker compose exec -u git -w /tmp gitea_service /app/gitea/gitea dump -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini --file /data_backup/gitea-dump-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%Hh%Mm%Ss").zip