Failed restore!
Summary
During a fairly routine upgrade of Gitlab, I managed to completely destroy the data in postgres. I thought I was safe because I had made a backup prior to the upgrade, but have since been unable to restore.
Relevant logs and/or screenshots
Select a backup to restore: 1516455450_2018_01_20_gitlab_backup.tar
Running raketask gitlab:backup:restore...
** Invoke gitlab:backup:restore (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:restore
rake aborted!
TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String
/home/git/gitlab/lib/backup/manager.rb:122:in `exist?'
/home/git/gitlab/lib/backup/manager.rb:122:in `unpack'
/home/git/gitlab/lib/tasks/gitlab/backup.rake:32:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/monitor.rb:214:in `mon_synchronize'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:150:in `invoke_task'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `each'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block in top_level'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:115:in `run_with_threads'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:100:in `top_level'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in run'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:176:in `standard_exception_handling'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/lib/rake/application.rb:75:in `run'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/rake-10.5.0/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bin/rake:22:in `load'
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bin/rake:22:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => gitlab:backup:restore
All I would really like to know is if there is a manual restore possibility from the archive that was created.