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+title = '''Gitea Updates: quick'n'dirty'''
+summary = 'After a lot of lookups, a quick reminder in copy&paste mode for me.'
+date = '2023-03-12T07:34:46+0100'
+categories = [ 'computerstuff' ]
+tags = [ 'linux', 'reminders' ]
+draft = true
+
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+
+Okay, let's get right into it.
+
+The gitea stuff is located at `/var/lib/gitea`.
+
+The gitea config file is located at `/etc/gitea/app.ini`.
+
+The `gitea.service` file is located at `/etc/systemd/system/gitea.service` and
+contains:
+
+```ini
+[Unit]
+Description=Gitea
+After=syslog.target
+After=network.target
+After=mysql.service
+
+[Service]
+RestartSec=2s
+Type=simple
+User=git
+Group=git
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/gitea/
+ExecStart=/var/lib/gitea/gitea web -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
+Restart=always
+Environment=USER=git HOME=/var/lib/gitea/data/home GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+```
+
+Check the [Changelog](https://blog.gitea.io/) for breaking changes.
+
+Create a backup first (or after renamed the executable file `gitea` to
+`gitea.back`):
+
+```console
+# sudo -u git ./gitea.back dump -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
+```
+
+That creates a file
+
+```console
+# ll gitea-dump*
+.rw-------. git  git  835 MB Sun Mar 12 07:32:49 2023  gitea-dump-1678602739.zip
+```
+
+Just for the record: I'll include a recovery routine here, which is basically
+unzipping the dump file from above and moving the contained files to the right
+directory.
+
+```console
+# unzip gitea-dump-1610949662.zip
+# cd gitea-dump-1610949662
+# mv data/conf/app.ini /etc/gitea/app.ini
+# mv data/* /var/lib/gitea/data/
+# mv log/* /var/lib/gitea/log/
+# mv repos/* /var/lib/gitea/repositories/
+# chown -R gitea:gitea /etc/gitea/conf/app.ini /var/lib/gitea
+
+# mysql --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -u$USER -p$PASS $DATABASE <gitea-db.sql
+
+# systemctl restart gitea
+```
+
+Have a look at
+<https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/backup-and-restore/#restore-command-restore> for a
+full and/or actual version of the recovery process.
+
+Download the new binary file from <https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/>.
+
+I usually download to my root's home folder.
+
+```console
+# wget https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/1.18.5/gitea-1.18.5-linux-amd64
+# cd /var/lib/gitea
+# cp gitea gitea.back
+# mv ~/gitea-1.18.5-linux-amd64 gitea
+# systemctl restart gitea
+```
+
+That's it.