Commit c4ea1527 authored by Alexander Tanayno's avatar Alexander Tanayno Committed by Achilleas Pipinellis

Add more clarify about gitaly-backup

parent 39b7314a
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[risks when disabling released features](../administration/feature_flags.md#risks-when-disabling-released-features).
Refer to this feature's version history for more details.
`gitaly-backup` is used by the backup Rake task to create and restore repository backups from Gitaly.
The `gitaly-backup` binary is used by the backup Rake task to create and restore repository backups from Gitaly.
`gitaly-backup` replaces the previous backup method that directly calls RPCs on Gitaly from GitLab.
The backup Rake task must be able to find this executable. It can be configured in Omnibus GitLab packages:
The backup Rake task must be able to find this executable. In most cases, you don't need to change
the path to the binary as it should work fine with the default path `/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/gitaly-backup`.
If you have a specific reason to change the path, it can be configured in Omnibus GitLab packages:
1. Add the following to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
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