Hello! I’ve recently been testing out PieFed (I followed the Docker install instructions), it’s actually working quite well… However, I’m a bit of a newbie system administrator, I was wondering if there was a guide or documentation available on how to back up/restore a PieFed instance installed this way? Being able to back up and restore the instance is the one stumbling block I need to get past in order to self host PieFed, so I would certainly appreciate any help that people can provide 😀 Thanks!
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to figure this out, I was able to write a script for Mastodon that automated the process of dumping the database, copying the system folder and so on, I was able to restore a test backup I made successfully as well. I only say that to indicate that I have at least some familiarity with the shell, but not much 😁 In the case of Mastodon it’s running on “bare metal” so to speak rather than Docker, so this is probably much easier for someone who is familiar with Docker!
You could use PieFed in docker with the DB connection set in .env.docker in such a way that it connects to a database on the host. That’d be easier to get to.