WARNING:
Currently (December 4, 2021), the gitea dump command seems not work well on the Docker.
Please consider to use volume-backup instead of this.
A docker container image for scheduling backup of Gitea.
# Start your Gitea container
$ docker run -d -v gitea:/data -p 3000:3000 gitea/gitea
# And then, start backup scheduling container.
$ docker run -d -v gitea:/data -v $(pwd):/backup ghcr.io/macrat/gitea-backupIn default, it runs backup on 2:42 every day, and retain 3 files. You can customize this behavior via environment variables.
Please see also Backup and Restore section of the official documentation.
Note: You can not stop this container with Ctrl-C. Please use docker stop command.
| Environment Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BACKUP_SCHEDULE | 42 2 * * * |
Schedule in crontab spec. |
| BACKUP_PREFIX | gitea-backup- |
Prefix string of backup file. |
| BACKUP_RETAIN_NUM | 3 |
Number of retain backup files. |
| BACKUP_USER | git |
Username to execute backup. |
# For example, retain backup files 7 days.
$ docker run -d -v gitea:/data -v $(pwd):/backup -e BACKUP_RETAIN_NUM=7 ghcr.io/macrat/gitea-backup
# Or, backup once a week, every sunday.
$ docker run -d -v gitea:/data -v $(pwd):/backup -e BACKUP_SCHEDULE='0 0 * * 0' ghcr.io/macrat/gitea-backup