We have a git server on our local server. I want to backup these git repositories from server side directly copying "repositoryname.git" folders.
In case of a problem with a new server is it possible to recover files from these folder? I think the files stored as fractured on an Object folder on this .git folders. And not directly accessible from server.
Thank you.
In order to backup bare repo from the server, you should avoid copying directly the repositoryname.git folder (which contains local config, including gitlab hooks), but rather do a git bundle (see my answer on git bundle).
cd repositoryname.git
git bundle create /tmp/repositoryname.bundle --all
That will generate one file, that you can easily copy around, and from which you can clone in order to restore that repo on another machine.
The .git/object folder will be re-populated once cloned, with the right objects.
