I'm currently in the process of moving a gitolite (3) installation between two servers. Thankfully, this process is pretty well documented on the main project website. However, my repositories makes pretty active use of git-annex which stores data in various remotes as well as on the server itself.
Now, I'm not an expert on git-annex, but I know it works a bit differently from "regular" git, so is there anything one should keep in mind when moving this kind of installation or does it work just as outlined in the gitolite documentation above?
After quite a bit of research, I couldn't find any details on how this should done on a git-annex enabled repository so I decided to simply try it out. Apparently, the steps as they are written work just fine, even for git-annex content. That said, be cautious as you're moving stuff. Once the new server is ready to take over, make sure the old one is disabled, I don't think the git-annex likes to find 2 identical remotes.
As a minor anecdote: I accidently forgot to chown/chmod the repositories but
re-running step 6 and onwards without any issues what-so-ever.