GitLab

You can use the Commvault Cloud software to back up and restore Git repositories.

Backups

Commvault Cloud provides automated, policy-driven backup and recovery for your critical GitLab data, ensuring that collaboration, version control, and CI/CD configurations are always protected and recoverable.

Commvault Cloud also supports backup of Git LFS (Large File Storage) objects within GitLab repositories.

Data You Can Back Up

• Groups & Subgroups

  • Group hierarchy (including nested subgroups)

  • Members and permissions

  • Group-level epics

  • Group-level labels

• Repositories

  • Commits, branches, and tags

  • Merge Requests (MRs)

  • Repository visibility and descriptions

  • Project metadata and settings

  • Project members

  • Webhook configurations

  • Variables

  • Pipeline schedules

  • Repository graphs

  • LFS Objects

• Deployments (CI/CD)

  • Basic environments

  • Project releases

  • Feature flags

• Issues & Planning

  • Project-level issues

  • Project-level labels

  • Project-level milestones

  • Discussions and notes

  • Time tracking

  • Issue boards (metadata and lists)

• Snippets

  • Snippets

  • Snippet comments

• Wikis

  • Wiki repository content

Data You Cannot Back Up

• Container and Package Registry content

• GitLab CI/CD pipeline run history and job logs

• Audit events

• Personal Access Tokens (PATs), SSH keys, and GPG keys

• Runner configurations and tokens

• Custom integrations (such as Slack notifications and external webhooks not stored in repository settings)

• Application secrets or encrypted credentials

• Project avatars and logos

• Any third-party plugin or app configurations not stored natively in GitLab project

Backups You Can Perform

• Full backups

When You Can Perform Backups

• On a schedule: The backup plan that you assign manages scheduled backups

• On demand: You can perform on-demand backups at any time

Restores

Backups You Can Use for Restores

• The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location

• A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable

• Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted

Destinations You Can Restore To

• The current location (in place)

• A different location on the same app or a different app (out of place)

• A different repository hosting service such as Azure DevOps (out of place)

• A disk (out of place)