📚 Documentation: Backup and restore

[gewenyu99]

💭 Description

The Appwrite community has vast knowledge and expertise in managing Appwrite instances. The community has self-hosted larger Appwrite instances in production, and you can share your knowledge in backups and restores with the community, here.

Goal

Provide guidance on managing backups and restores for self-hosted Appwrite instances.

Content

Should contain scripts and examples of backup and restore procedures for self-hosted Appwrite instances.

Should be contributed to the src/routes/docs/tutorials folder.

How to contribute

Pitch an outline detailing each page you plan to add and headings within, and ask to be assigned. Open a PR after the outline has been approved.

The Appwrite team will collaborate with you on the outline and PR.

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[DH-555]

Regarding this, probably what's mainly fundamental is:

1. MariaDB backups (mysqldump is probably the most effective way. Including the needed command and process)
2. InfluxDB and docker volumes (appwrite storage) backup.

It's possible to backup everything by stopping everything and copying everything, but since that affects availability, it's not a good approach

Apart from this, I find it very useful to have the following:

• How to export the backup from the server to your computer, other server, etc
• Automating the backups. This could be achieved with a bash or similar script file that gets executed and runs mysqldump commands, export to a remote server, etc.

[gewenyu99]

@DH-555 Thanks for the suggestion!

[Susmita-Dey]

Hey @gewenyu99 Can you assign it to me? I wanna try it out

[gewenyu99]

Awesome! I have assigned you @Susmita-Dey

Notes:

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Cheers

[Susmita-Dey]

Hey @gewenyu99 I guess you forgot to do it under the assignees section

[gewenyu99]

Hey @gewenyu99 I guess you forgot to do it under the assignees section

I blame github's API! (maybe I forgot

[Susmita-Dey]

Update: Started working on it!

[Haimantika]

Update: Started working on it!

Feel free to share the outline to get it reviewed

[tessamero]

Closing issue due to inactivity, thank you for taking the time to be part of hacktoberfest this year :)