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openproject/doc/operation_guides/packager/backup-guide.md

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# Backup Guide
We advice to backup your OpenProject installation regularly — especially before upgrading to a newer version.
## What should be backed up
In general the following parts of your OpenProject installation should be backed up:
* Data stored in the database
* Configuration files
* Uploaded files (attachments)
* Repositories (typically subversion) if applicable
## Backup via packager command line client
The packager installation provides a backup tool which can be used to take a snaphsot of the current OpenProject installation. It will create a backup of all parts mentioned above. The backup tool is used by executing the following command:
`openproject run backup`
for the _OpenProject Core Editon_ or a slighly different command if the
_OpenProject Community Edition_ is used (a `-ce` is prepended):
`openproject-ce run backup`
The command will create backup files in the following location:
`/var/db/openproject/backup` or `/var/db/openproject-ce/backup`
depending on the Edition used (as above `-ce` is used for Community Edition).
In detail the content of the directory should look very similar to the following:
```bash
root@test-packager-backup:/opt/openproject# ls -l /var/db/openproject/backup/
total 24
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 117 Apr 8 09:55 attachments-20150408095521.tar.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 667 Apr 8 09:55 conf-20150408095521.tar.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 8298 Apr 8 09:55 mysql-dump-20150408095521.sql.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 116 Apr 8 09:55 svn-repositories-20150408095521.tar.gz
```
## Restore notice
The backup created via the packager command line client consists of four parts which are all zipped using `gzip`. Except the MySQL database dump these parts can be restored by untar/unzip the `*.tar.gzip` and copy the content to the proper location. The command to untar and unzip the
`*.tar.gz` files looks like this (using sample file names from above):
```bash
tar vxfz attachments-20150408095521.tar.gz
```
To restore the MySQL dump it is recommended to use the `mysql` comand line client.
First the dump has to be extracted (unzipped) and then restored. The command used should look very similar to this:
```bash
gzip -d mysql-dump-20150408095521.sql.gz
mysql -u <user> -h <host> -p <database> < mysql-dump-20150408095521.sql
```
The `<user>`, `<host>` and `<database>` variables have to be replaced with actual values.