akkoma/docs/admin/backup.md

# Backup your instance

1. Stop the Pleroma service.
2. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
3. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_dump -d <pleroma_db> --format=custom -f </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
4. Copy `pleroma.pgdump`, `config/prod.secret.exs` and the `uploads` folder to your backup destination. If you have other modifications, copy those changes too.
5. Restart the Pleroma service.

## Restore your instance

1. Stop the Pleroma service.
2. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
3. Copy the above mentioned files back to their original position.
4. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d <pleroma_db> -v -1 </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
5. Restart the Pleroma service.
Move out of Gitlab Wiki I understand that this change is quite unreadable and hard to review, sorry for forgetting to do atomic commits. This patch does not change too much content wise, it just * Gets everything from gitlab wiki * Removes some specific gitlab hacks * Formats all documentation file names to be in snake case so they look the same way as our code does 2019-03-28 16:46:30 +00:00			`# Backup your instance`

			`1. Stop the Pleroma service.`
			2. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
			3. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_dump -d <pleroma_db> --format=custom -f </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
			4. Copy `pleroma.pgdump`, `config/prod.secret.exs` and the `uploads` folder to your backup destination. If you have other modifications, copy those changes too.
			`5. Restart the Pleroma service.`

			`## Restore your instance`

			`1. Stop the Pleroma service.`
			2. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
			`3. Copy the above mentioned files back to their original position.`
			4. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d <pleroma_db> -v -1 </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
			`5. Restart the Pleroma service.`