How to backup entire gitlab.com account

Question

Is there any way to backup a gitlab account (all repositories)?

I can't seem to find any documentation beyond the self-hosted versions.

Gitlab did have a catastrophic data data loss in 2017 that couldn't be recovered, and I'm worried about accidental or malicious deletion of data.

Has anyone had any luck with this?

Answer 1

I believe on gitlab.com you can export your repositories (projects) one at a time. That is, it's doable, but it might be time-consuming depending on the number of repositories you have. As you mention, on self-hosted versions it's possible to backup a whole installation .

That said, there's an open issue to provide a batch export for projects on gitlab.com, based on the groups they're in: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13503

Regarding the database incident, a lot was learnt and a number of measures were taken to avoid it happening in the future, as per the original report and post-mortem .