How can I migrate repositories from GitLab 7.9.0 to GitLab Community Edition 11.8.3?

Question

I need to migrate 100 repositories from GitLab 7.9.0 to GitLab Community Edition 11.8.3. Can anyone help to do the same?

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

I used gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos command to restore all repositories and which worked without any issues. Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/import.html

Old server (Source installation)

tar -cvzf repositories_27-3-2019.tar.gz  -C /home/git/ ./repositories
scp repositories_27-3-2019.tar.gz sijo@10.10.10.178:/home/sijo

New server (Omnibus installation)

tar -xvf repositories_27-3-2019.tar.gz -C /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/
chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories_27-3-2019/

gitlab-rake gitlab:import:repos['/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories_27-3-2019']

Note: Only repositories will get restored by using this command.