gitlab transfer to new server without creating backup

my current server's OS has been corrupted, and the gitlab commands not work. so I can not create backup with gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create command. is there any other way to transfer gitlab data to new server I'm using gitlab 10.7.1

You can try to :

• backup the postgres database manually (checkout /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb for the credentials if needed)
• backup the git data (I think it's located in /mnt/git-data by default, checkout /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb for the specific location)
• backup /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
• backup /etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json

Then starts a new fresh Gitlab CE instance with the same version as the previous one (and same type of installation as before eg Omnibus/from source/docker/etc...):

• copy gitlab.rb and gitlab-secrets.json in /etc/gitlab
• copy the backuped git data into /mnt/git-data (if it was the correct location in gitlab.rb)
• restore the postgres database

Then perform: gitlab-ctl reconfigure and see how it goes

Note that all the above may not apply to your version 10.7.1 which is very old (04-2018)