From a02ed3920f43b4dd67737e5989f65f3298546ea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Felder Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:51:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Improve backup/restore documentation --- docs/administration/backup.md | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/administration/backup.md b/docs/administration/backup.md index be57bf74a..10a86c563 100644 --- a/docs/administration/backup.md +++ b/docs/administration/backup.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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 --format=custom -f ` (make sure the postgres user has write access to the destination file) -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. +4. Copy `pleroma.pgdump`, `config/prod.secret.exs`, `config/setup_db.psql` (if still available) and the `uploads` folder to your backup destination. If you have other modifications, copy those changes too. 5. Restart the Pleroma service. ## Restore/Move @@ -14,11 +14,15 @@ 2. Stop the Pleroma service. 3. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`) 4. Copy the above mentioned files back to their original position. -5. Drop the existing database and recreate an empty one `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'DROP DATABASE ;';` `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE ;';` -6. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d -v -1 ` -7. If you installed a newer Pleroma version, you should run `mix ecto.migrate`[^1]. This task performs database migrations, if there were any. -8. Restart the Pleroma service. -9. Run `sudo -Hu postgres vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages`. This will quickly generate the statistics so that postgres can properly plan queries. +5. Drop the existing database. `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'DROP DATABASE ;` +6. Restore the database schema and pleroma postgres role the with the original `setup_db.psql` if you have it: `sudo -Hu postgres psql -f config/setup_db.psql`. + + Alernatively, run the `mix pleroma.instance gen` task again. You can ignore most of the questions, but make the password the same as found in your backup of `config/prod.secret.exs`. Then run the restoration of the pleroma role and schema with of the generated `config/setup_db.psql` as instructed above. You may delete the `config/generated_config.exs` file as it is not needed. + +7. Now restore the Pleroma instance's data into the empty database schema: `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d -v -1 ` +8. If you installed a newer Pleroma version, you should run `mix ecto.migrate`[^1]. This task performs database migrations, if there were any. +9. Restart the Pleroma service. +10. Run `sudo -Hu postgres vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages`. This will quickly generate the statistics so that postgres can properly plan queries. [^1]: Prefix with `MIX_ENV=prod` to run it using the production config file.