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As you may already know, you can only restore your backups in the same gitlab version. So it means that you cannot move your old repositories to the newer version of gitlab using the backup/restore method. Fortunately there is another way to import those repositories into gitlab. Follow these instructions: In my case, I want to migrate my old repositories from a manual-installed gitlab v7.8.1 to omnibus gitlab-ce 8.14.0 instance which were installed on the same server. 1. Create a group folder in the gitlab-ce's repositories directory: sudo -u git mkdir /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/geniuses 2. Copy the old repositories (repositories in gitlab are bare ones): sudo cp -r /home/git/repositories/* /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/geniuses/ 3. Correct the permissions of the new folder and all of its sub-directories: sudo chown -R git:git /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/geniuses/ 4. Import the new copied repositories: sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:import:r

"When you teach to the heart, the mind will follow." ~ http://www.ted.com/talks/victor_rios_help_for_kids_the_education_system_ignores

After upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 from 14.04, my server network stop functioning (cannot ping gateway or anything...). I tried several things but none of them works (especially this one ). So I ran these command to check my server's network status: 1.  $ sudo ifconfig => There's only the loopback interface show up. Where is my eth0? 2. Then, I check the network status: $ sudo service networking status It said it could not bring up the eth0 interface because it find no interface name eth0 on the server. 3. Finally, I tried and "the thing" shown up: $ sudo ifconfig -a ens192... 4. And because I statically assigned the interface's configuration so I have to go in and change it to reflect the new name of the interface: $ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces ... auto ens192 iface ens192 inet static ... Bravo!!!

The other day, I could start the CYGWIN sshd service on my Windows Server 2008 R. It said: "The cygwin sshd service started and then stopped" I then looked at the logs at C:\cygwin64\var\log\sshd.log : "Privilege separation user sshd does not exist" I did the following and was able to start cygwin sshd: 1. Edit the file /etc/passwd and add the below line: sshd:x:74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin 2. and the below line in the /etc/group file: sshd:x:74: 3. Then I can start CYGWIN sshd service again.