Backing up a taiga project

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ric...@gmail.com

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Apr 4, 2016, 10:42:54 PM4/4/16
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Hello All,

I'm running a private Taiga server--and for some reason in the past--I thought that we needed to back up both the Postgresql database AND the JSON export object. 

I'm now thinking that it's JUST the database that needs to be backed up (I just looked at the PG dump, and it looks pretty complete).

Am I correct?

And just to confirm, are there any other files that I'd need to backup as well? 

It seems to me that the /media folder contains images (e.g., member avatars) referenced by the backup objects (at least I see this in the JSON object).

Thanks much.

Rich

Alejandro Alonso

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Apr 5, 2016, 1:33:59 AM4/5/16
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Hello Rich!, 

You are right, to do full backup of your instance you only need a database dump (you can generate it using pg_dump) and the media folder (containing all the avatar and files uploaded by users).

Regards!,

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goran...@gmail.com

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Jan 9, 2017, 12:28:01 PM1/9/17
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Hey guys

I was just wondering, when I create a export json dump file from the admin panel, the uploaded media (attachments etc.) is included as raw data in the json file itself. 
So why should I still backup the media folder?

David Barragán

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Jan 9, 2017, 12:44:13 PM1/9/17
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The export process generate a json file every time reading the database and the media directory, so if you only backup your database you lose the attachments and the rest of media files.


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ric...@gmail.com

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Jan 9, 2017, 10:03:55 PM1/9/17
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Hola,

As David points out, both media files and database (either db or JSON export) need to be backed up.

We do both, using simple bash scripts that get run every 12 hours (through cron jobs):
For our projects, archived media files are ~1.5 MB in size. Database dump is ~200 KB. We then run a separate script (again cron) that deletes aged files after some period (3 and 6 months, depending):
You can see we try to be as lazy as possible... or rather, we rely on an abstraction of DRY for everything in our work lives. 

Overall, very easy to implement, and great piece of mind for our teams.


Rich

David Barragán

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Jan 10, 2017, 2:43:14 AM1/10/17
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Great, but one last tip, it is a good practice to backup the settings of the app too;

taiga-back/settings/local.py
taiga-front-dist/dist/conf.json
taiga-events/config.json

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