GitHub vs. GitLab | GitLab
about.gitlab.com › devops-tools › github-vs-gitlabOn the other hand, GitHub’s Save Changes takes a very long time, about 10 min, while GitLab’s reconfigure is stored as-code and takes about a minute. Backup. GitLab backup is a command-line utility, which runs on the same Linux server as GitLab. It can be configured to run at regular intervals as a cron job.