GitLab Backup

Your GitLab Codebase
Protected & Secured

Replace fragile manual scripts with automated daily GitLab backup. Secure your GitLab backup repositories, snippets, and wikis with professional backups designed to simplify your SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance reviews.

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Trusted by 1,300+ Organizations Worldwide

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Compliance Ready:

  • SOC2 Type II
  • GDPR
  • ISO 27001 Ready

Part of the BackupVault Group protecting business data since 2001

Secure API Integration

GitLab protects infrastructure uptime
You are responsible for data recovery

GitLab operates under the "Shared Responsibility Model." They guarantee the platform is available, but according to their Terms of Service, users are solely responsible for content maintenance and backups.

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GitLab:

Terms of Service

"In no event will either party be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental... loss of data or revenue..."

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Why should you backup GitLab?

Reduce DevOps Workload
 No more messing around with GitLab create backup scripts, never knowing if the backups are working

Platform Issues
 Ensure 24/7 access to your data even during service outages and downtime

Accidental Deletion
 Human error is the leading cause of data loss; protect against one-click permanent deletions

Legal & Compliance
 Meet strict ISO 27001, SOC2, and insurance requirements for independent data protection

Malicious Users
 Secure your workspace from intentional data destruction by departing or disgruntled employees

Business Continuity
 Don't lose years of development code and metadata that are critical to your organization

GitLab Backup and Restore Core Features

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Automatic Daily Backup

GitLab backup create process runs multiple times per day, with up to 90 days retention as standard

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Fully Encrypted & Secure

256bit AES encryption during transfer and rest, SSO and two-factor authentication as standard

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Full GitLab Protection

Protect Projects, Repositories, Snippets, Issues, Milestones and most Metadata

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Choose Storage Regions

Choose to store your backups in USA, UK, EU or Australia

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Multiple Restore Options

GitLab restore from backup directly into your account, save locally or to your own cloud storage

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Own Storage Options

Additional sync to your own cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive or AWS S3 buckets

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The Critical Difference:

There are many GitLab backup scripts available, but none can easily perform a GitLab backup restore directly during a disaster.

Step: 1 Connect App

Step: 2 Backup

Step: 3 Restore & Recover

Step: 1 Connect App

Connect App

Connect via GitLab’s secure API login. No passwords shared. You select exactly which projects and snippets to protect via high-fidelity sync.

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Read metadata

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Step: 2 Backup

Backup

GitLab backup runs every 24 hours silently. API Throttling Optimized: We manage load calls to ensure zero impact on your team's development performance.

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On-demand backup

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Daily backups

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Keep 90 days

Step: 3 Restore & Recover

Restore & Recover

Never overwrite live code. All GitLab restore operations create a new entry (clone) in your account, allowing you to review before merging back to production.

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BackupLABS vs Manual GitLab Backup

Manual GitLab Backup

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Complex manual scripting

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No metadata support

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Script required for restore back to GitLab

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Risk of silent errors

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Prone to user error

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Not compliant

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Fully automated daily backup

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Up to 90 day retention

Driver refresh

Metadata included

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Simple Gitlab restore backup directly back into GitLab

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Option to save to your own storage

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Compliant with ISO27001 and SOC2

2017 - GitLab data loss

GitLab.com lost around 6 hours of database data — issues, comments, and merge requests were affected

Protect your GitLab

2019 - Repo wipe + ransom notes

Attackers wiped GitHub and GitLab repositories and left ransom notes — repos were replaced with empty projects

Protect your GitLab

Ongoing - Human error risks

Accidental deletion or overwrites happen daily — without independent backups, a full rollback is never guaranteed

Protect your GitLab

Security for Scaling Organisations

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Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS)

Sync data automatically to Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3

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Global Data Residency

Choose to store your data in the UK, USA, EU, or Australia

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AES-256 Encryption

Enterprise-level security during data transfer and at rest, two factor authentication and SSO as standard

Built on Reliability

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Expert Technical Support

You aren’t talking to an AI chatbot. Our support team is led by human engineers with decades of experience. We pride ourselves on being more responsive and technically accurate than VC-funded providers.

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No-Quibble Money-Back Guarantee

If BackupLABS doesn't seamlessly fit your workflow or fails to protect your specific setup, we will refund you immediately. No questions asked.

GitLab Backup Pricing

No credit card required, freeFree 14-day trial

Projects and snippets

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Secure baseline for individual projects

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Pro

Full protection for growing agencies and teams

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Essentials

Secure baseline for individual projects

$0.00 / month

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1 backup per day

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30-day retention

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AES-256 data encryption

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Choose data residency (EU, US, UK, AU)

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FAQ

For a full list of what GitLab metadata we currently support, visit here. We monitor API changes as they allow so we can improve what we backup and support.
Yes. When you backup a project, it houses all the repositories and snippets inside it.
Snippets can be backed up regardless of whether they are inside a project or not.
Yes, we support backup to your own external storage. We currently support: Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon S3 buckets. We will backup your data to the BackupLABS platform, but your backups will also appear in your own external cloud storage of choice as a zip file.
You are welcome to free trial any SaaS app, at any time.
BackupLABS does not support this. You can only backup items from your GitLab account.
It’s on our roadmap for early 2024.
Backups are automated every 24 hours. In addition, you can manually backup on demand (on an account level) periodically.
You can choose to delete your backups individually, in bulk or all of them.
Archived ZIP files are available for each individual backup.
On the Essential plan there is a 30 day retention and on the Pro plan it is 90 days.
They will not, but it’s important to remember you’re responsible for your own management. Our system have methods to detect a change in filename and will notify you of it. If you chose to restore a backup from an earlier point in time, it will restore with its previous original filename and content.
We do not offer granular restoring and adopt a simple and easy to use approach of restoring the item entirely.
BackupLABS will never overwrite. Our restores always create a new instance with all the original data intact. This allows you to review and compare your data before making a decision.
100%. Our systems will detect and inform you if your projects or snippets have been deleted. If they require rescuing, you have the choice to download the ZIP archive or restore the backup to create a new entry in your GitLab account.

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