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diff --git a/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md b/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md index 88b90e91316..d156f3ad777 100644 --- a/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md +++ b/doc/operations/moving_repositories.md @@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ source and the target.** ## Target directory is empty: use a tar pipe If the target directory `/mnt/gitlab/repositories` is empty the -simplest thing to do is to use a tar pipe. +simplest thing to do is to use a tar pipe. This method has low +overhead and tar is almost always already installed on your system. +However, it is not possible to resume an interrupted tar pipe: if +that happens then all data must be copied again. ``` # As the git user @@ -43,9 +46,11 @@ If you want to compress the data before it goes over the network ## The target directory contains an outdated copy of the repositories: use rsync -In this scenario it is better to use rsync. This utility is either -already installed on your system or easily installable via apt, yum -etc. +If the target directory already contains a partial / outdated copy +of the repositories it may be wasteful to copy all the data again +with tar. In this scenario it is better to use rsync. This utility +is either already installed on your system or easily installable +via apt, yum etc. ``` # As the 'git' user |