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Commit e840ccaf authored by Dmitriy Zaporozhets's avatar Dmitriy Zaporozhets
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Merge branch 'db-dump-instructions' into 'master'

Improve DB dump instructions

See merge request !1868
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Sometimes it is useful to import the database from a production environment
into a staging environment for testing. The procedure below assumes you have
SSH+sudo access to both the production environment and the staging VM.
 
**Destroy your staging VM** when you are done with it. It is important to avoid
data leaks.
On the staging VM, add the following line to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` to speed up
large database imports.
 
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@@ -12,6 +15,8 @@ large database imports.
echo "postgresql['checkpoint_segments'] = 64" | sudo tee -a /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
sudo touch /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-migrations
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl stop unicorn
sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq
```
 
Next, we let the production environment stream a compressed SQL dump to our
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