[ovirt-devel] Re: git backup
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:37 PM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
With the decision and on-going process to migrate from gerrit to
github, we do not anymore have a backup - github used to be a backup
for gerrit, automatically synced.
Do we want a backup for github? Some options:
1. Do nothing. github as-is might be good enough, and it also has an
archive program [1]. AFAICT, right now none of the partners in this
program allow 'git clone'. There are plans to allow that in the
future.
2. Do something custom like we did so far with gerrit->github.
3. Find some service. Searching for 'github backup' finds lots of
options. I didn't check any.
Thoughts?
When you use a service, you depend on the service provider to handle
backups. For example, do we have a backup of our mail?
But I think the ovirt project should not depend on a single provider and
have a git mirror somewhere.
I think the most attractive solution is gitlab, which has built-in support for
pulling (and pushing) to/from remote repositories:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/index.html
We can do this:
1. Create ovirt organization in gitlab
2. Import all projects from github
3. Set up a pull mirror for every project
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pull.html
I tried this on my vdsm project in gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/nirs/vdsm
This repo mirrors my vdsm fork in github:
https://github.com/nirs/vdsm
Because it neds only read-only access, there is not authentication
to set up.
Nir