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Opened Jan 19, 2016 by Reese Jenner@voarsh

Rake backup issue - permissions are correct - but fails? Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - open

My permissions:

root@gitlab:/opt/gitlab# ls -lah /opt/gitlab/
total 60K
drwxrwxr-x  9 root root 4.0K Jan 18 05:52 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Nov 27 04:55 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jan 18 05:52 bin
drwxrwxr-x 17 root root 4.0K Jan 18 06:26 embedded
drwxrwxr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jan 18 05:52 etc
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 11:46 init
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4.0K Nov 21 11:46 service
drwxrwxr-x  9 root root 4.0K Jan 13 12:58 sv
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Sep 24 13:03 var
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  15K Jan 18 05:07 version-manifest.json
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 6.1K Jan 18 05:07 version-manifest.txt
root@gitlab:/var/opt/gitlab# ls -lah
total 64K
drwxr-xr-x 14 root         root       4.0K Jan 19 13:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root         root       4.0K Sep 24 13:02 ..
drwx------  3 git          root       4.0K Sep 25 09:29 backups
-rw-------  1 root         root         38 Sep 24 13:03 bootstrapped
-rw-r--r--  1 git          git         266 Sep 24 13:14 .gitconfig
drwx------  3 git          root       4.0K Oct 27 11:50 git-data
drwxr-xr-x  3 git          root       4.0K Sep 24 13:02 gitlab-ci
drwxr-x---  2 git          gitlab-www 4.0K Nov 21 11:37 gitlab-git-http-server
drwxr-xr-x  8 git          root       4.0K Jan 19 13:50 gitlab-rails
drwx------  2 git          root       4.0K Jan 19 13:50 gitlab-shell
drwxr-x---  2 git          gitlab-www 4.0K Jan 19 13:50 gitlab-workhorse
drwx------  3 root         root       4.0K Jan 19 13:53 logrotate
drwxr-x---  8 root         gitlab-www 4.0K Jan 18 06:43 nginx
drwxr-xr-x  3 gitlab-psql  root       4.0K Jan 19 13:50 postgresql
drwxr-x---  2 gitlab-redis git        4.0K Jan 19 13:55 redis
drwx------  2 git          git        4.0K Sep 24 17:03 .ssh

The error:

root@gitlab:/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin# sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create --trace
** Invoke gitlab:backup:create (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:create
** Invoke gitlab:backup:db:create (first_time)
** Invoke environment
** Execute gitlab:backup:db:create
Dumping database ...
rake aborted!
Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - open
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/backup/database.rb:16:in `spawn'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/backup/database.rb:16:in `dump'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/tasks/gitlab/backup.rake:70:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.1.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/lib/tasks/gitlab/backup.rake:11:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/2.1.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:150:in `invoke_task'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `each'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `block in top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:115:in `run_with_threads'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:100:in `top_level'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:176:in `standard_exception_handling'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/lib/rake/application.rb:75:in `run'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.2/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `load'
/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => gitlab:backup:db:create

I've had issues with backing up before, so I TOUCHED skip DB backups when I perform upgrades, but I need to move to a new host so I need to backup the data.

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Reference: gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab#1067