Delete old backups from gitlab

Question

I have configured gitlab.rb file and reconfigured gitlab server gitlab-ctl reconfigure to apply configuration changes:

I generated a gitlab backup with the following command:

gitlab-backup create

In the firts try, 6 old backups have been deleted. However, I have more backups in etc/gitlab/config_backup folder. I have made a second try with the backup creation command and it did not delete any old backup:

In etc/gitlab/config_backup folder lot of old backups still remain:

BTW, the date configuration of the server is correct:

What can I do in order to delete all the old backups? Do I need to remove them manually?

Answer 1

It appears your backup name is different- note how your Creating backup archive: XXXXX does not match any of your gitlab_config_XXX.tar backup names.

I would hazard that you have some other backup task that is backing up your /etc/gitlab folder (which is never backed up by gitlab-backup as you can see in your first screen capture.)

It would also help if you grabbed your gitlab_rails['backup_path'] = "/path/here" and verified your backup location which most likely is not and should not be /etc/gitlab.

Answer 2

I have found a similar issue and had to pass the "--delete-old-backups" parameter/argument to get the old backups to purge.

gitlab-ctl backup-etc --delete-old-backups

This wasn't required with the main "gitlab-backup create" call, just with the "gitlab-ctl backup-etc" in my case.