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phoe-krk on May 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Repositories held for ransom by using valid creden...

GitLab is not a repository backup service. They are only required to hold multiple copies of what is the current version of the repository for their own hard drive fault tolerance purposes; they are not required to hold copies of the repository from a day, week, month, or year ago.

rmkrmk on May 4, 2019 [–]

Was just a question, don't get me wrong here. Thought they would do this for their managed service.

zoidb on May 4, 2019 | [–]

You can see how GitLab handles repository backups on the following page https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure...

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