By the same logic you can have a script that does git pull locally as cron job all the time along with exporting issues (wikis are just another implicit repo).

By the same logic you can have a script that does git pull locally as cron job all the time along with exporting issues (wikis are just another implicit repo). The point was that nobody does that for backup purposes in advance, and maintaining local Gitlab along with supportive infrastructure is not trivial task.