backup fails running on glusterFS file system

I open another issue with a concrete solutiuon for this recurring problem.

When I try to make a backup, I get a:

tar: .*: file changed as we read it

I run gitlab on top of rancher/glusterfs. There is a bug about tar with glusterfs, I mentionned it here.

But still, I guess that for huge gitlab instances, you might have the issue, because, indeed, there is a chance that a change is pushed during the tar process. How do you do on gitlab.com? You never hit this issue?

Let me know on how can I help to fix the issue. In the mean time I did this as a workaround:

git revert https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/d411a9e4d8063fdc9b6d0f74cad7345245a1fb0b
#modify the backup path to be sure it is not on gluster.
RAILS_ENV=production SKIP=uploads,builds,artifacts bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create

Added backup-restore label

I think this is a duplicate of #5613 (moved).

Status changed to closed