gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create fails

Standard build on 12.04 as per https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/README.md, git was installed and simple .gitconfig was created to see if this fixed the issue

Installed from https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/gitlab_6.6.4-omnibus-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb

root@code:/# gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create Dumping database ... Dumping PostgreSQL database gitlabhq_production ... [DONE] done Dumping repositories ...

• webapps/intranet-v1 ... rake aborted! Error stat'ing config file '/root/.gitconfig'

Tasks: TOP => gitlab:backup:repo:create (See full trace by running task with --trace) root@code:/#

root@code:/# uname -a Linux code 3.11.0-15-generic #25 (closed)~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 30 17:39:31 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks for reporting this Richard! This should be fixed by 942a4c02 in the upcoming 6.6.5 package.

Could you try if the following workaround works?

HOME=/var/opt/gitlab sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create

Yes It does

Status changed to closed

Great! You can download the 6.6.5 package at https://www.gitlab.com/downloads/ .

mentioned in issue #74 (closed)