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title: Backing up
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# Backing up your OpenProject installation
We advise 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 (subversion, git) if applicable
## Package-based installation (DEB/RPM)
The DEB/RPM packages provide a backup tool which can be used to take a snapshot
of the current OpenProject installation. This tool will create a backup of
all parts mentioned above. The backup tool is invoked by executing the following
command:
```bash
sudo openproject run backup
```
The command will create backup files in the following location on your system:
```bash
/var/db/openproject/backup
```
The content of that directory should look very similar to the following (depending on your database engine, you will see either a `mysql-dump-<date>.sql.gz` or a `postgresql-dump-<date>.pgdump` file).
```bash
root@ip-10-0-0-228:/home/admin# ls -al /var/db/openproject/backup/
total 1680
drwxr-xr-x 2 openproject openproject 4096 Nov 19 21:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 openproject openproject 4096 Nov 19 21:00 ..
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 1361994 Nov 19 21:00 attachments-20191119210038.tar.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 1060 Nov 19 21:00 conf-20191119210038.tar.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 126 Nov 19 21:00 git-repositories-20191119210038.tar.gz
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 332170 Nov 19 21:00 postgresql-dump-20191119210038.pgdump
-rw-r----- 1 openproject openproject 112 Nov 19 21:00 svn-repositories-20191119210038.tar.gz
```
You should then copy those dump files to a secure location, for instance an S3 bucket or some sort of backup server.
## Docker-based installation
TODO: review
If you've followed the steps described in the [installation guide for Docker](../../installation/docker),
then you just need to make a backup of the exported volumes, at your
convenience. As a reminder, here is the recommended way to launch OpenProject
with Docker:
```bash
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/openproject/{pgdata,logs,static}
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name openproject -e SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret \
-v /var/lib/openproject/pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main \
-v /var/lib/openproject/logs:/var/log/supervisor \
-v /var/lib/openproject/static:/var/db/openproject \
openproject/community:10
```
If you're using the same local directories than the above command, then you
just need to backup your local `/var/lib/openproject` folder (for instance to
S3 or FTP).