[Question] Does gitea dump protect against data corruption when backing up live repos?

[annanyearian]

Feature Description

I have been reading about how to backup git repositories and there is some concern from 9 years ago that copying a repository mid-operation would lead to inconsistent data - difficulties in backing up live git repositories. I can't find any information about if this was changed, but I imagine not.

Does the gitea dump command protect against this type of issue when it copies repositories, or do I need to make sure users are not doing anything? (~shutting down gitea service while backing up)

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[wxiaoguang]

The answer is in code https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/cmd/dump.go

gitea dump just writes all the files under repos directory into the archiver, one by one. Shutting down gitea is the most safe way to do dump.

Personally I always use low-level methods to do backup & restore (eg: zfs snapshot), no stop time anymore.