dump / backup does not contain data directory

[MonkeySon]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.11.4
• Git version: 2.20.1
• Operating system: Ubuntu 19.10 Server
• Database (use [x]):
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • SQLite
• Can you reproduce the bug at https://try.gitea.io:
  • Yes (provide example URL)
  • No
  • Not relevant
• Log gist:

Description

I was trying to create a backup of my Gitea instance as found on the official docs. As I run my gitea as a service, I prepended the working directory manually when running the command. But the resulting zip files misses the data and custom directories. The log file states that it searched for custom at /usr/local/bin/ which is obviously the wrong directory. Maybe the data directory was silently skipped after that.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Commands and resulting zip file:

git@homeserver:~$ GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea/; gitea dump -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
2020/04/26 17:55:09 ...dules/setting/git.go:91:newGit() [I] Git Version: 2.20.1, Wire Protocol Version 2 Enabled
git@homeserver:~$ unzip -l gitea-dump-1587916509.zip 
Archive:  gitea-dump-1587916509.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
    90955  2020-04-26 17:55   gitea-db.sql
     1751  2020-04-19 18:49   app.ini
   386969  2020-04-26 17:55   gitea-repo.zip
        0  2020-04-26 17:55   log/
    10661  2020-04-22 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-22.001.gz
   276985  2020-04-26 17:55   log/gitea.log
    21062  2020-04-21 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-21.001.gz
    29819  2020-04-25 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-25.001.gz
     2744  2020-04-24 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-24.001.gz
   131732  2020-04-20 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-20.001.gz
    12852  2020-04-26 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-26.001.gz
     6231  2020-04-23 00:05   log/gitea.log.2020-04-23.001.gz
---------                     -------
   971761                     12 files

Log file:

2020/04/26 17:55:09 ...dules/setting/log.go:276:newLogService() [I] Gitea Log Mode: File(File:info)
2020/04/26 17:55:09 ...les/setting/cache.go:45:newCacheService() [I] Cache Service Enabled
2020/04/26 17:55:09 ...s/setting/session.go:44:newSessionService() [I] Session Service Enabled
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:80:runDump() [I] Creating tmp work dir: /tmp/gitea-dump-120227348
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:90:runDump() [I] Packing dump files...
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:101:runDump() [I] Dumping local repositories.../home/git/gitea-repositories
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:115:runDump() [I] Dumping database...
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:127:runDump() [I] Adding custom configuration file from /etc/gitea/app.ini
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:139:runDump() [I] Custom dir /usr/local/bin/custom doesn't exist, skipped
2020/04/26 17:55:09 cmd/dump.go:169:runDump() [I] Removing tmp work dir: /tmp/gitea-dump-120227348

Thanks for your help :)

[MonkeySon]

Okay, problem solved. I had to set the working directory with -w or --work-path and not via environment variable.
Like so: gitea dump -c /etc/gitea/app.ini -w /var/lib/gitea/