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!

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    7 days ago

    I haven’t had to restore from my backup in production yet, but I run two instances and just periodically rsync the mapped volumes to a backup folder. I also use S3 for my media, so it is really just the database that is critical.

    Doing dev work, when I know I am about to really fuck up my database doing an experiment, I will rsync myself a backup…blow everything up…tear down the docker stack and swap back in my database folder and it is good to go.