diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 90f006d445daedfe83a63248ac11852630104d1d..3b17ea491cee2591fa7f9bc5f04f17f289809247 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ v 8.10.0 (unreleased)
   - Fix issues importing projects from EE to CE
   - Fix creating group with space in group path
   - Create Todos for Issue author when assign or mention himself (Katarzyna Kobierska)
+  - Limit the number of retries on error to 3 for exporting projects
 
 v 8.9.6
   - Fix importing of events under notes for GitLab projects. !5154
diff --git a/app/workers/project_export_worker.rb b/app/workers/project_export_worker.rb
index 39f6037e0777ea2cd4c6eb49d2c015a53c97c61f..615311e63f50efaef365bbf8e028b49a669b34ab 100644
--- a/app/workers/project_export_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/project_export_worker.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 class ProjectExportWorker
   include Sidekiq::Worker
 
-  sidekiq_options queue: :gitlab_shell, retry: true
+  sidekiq_options queue: :gitlab_shell, retry: 3
 
   def perform(current_user_id, project_id)
     current_user = User.find(current_user_id)