Running backup while NodeBB is running

[Jarko]

The question is pretty much all in the title.

Is it ok to run the mongodump command to backup the database + make a backup of user pictures while NodeBB is running? Or should the backup script run ./nodebb stop before and ./nodebb start after? I guess the real risk of something going wrong regards the database dump.

Thank you!

[exodo]

@jarko said in Running backup while NodeBB is running:

The question is pretty much all in the title.

Is it ok to run the mongodump command to backup the database + make a backup of user pictures while NodeBB is running? Or should the backup script run ./nodebb stop before and ./nodebb start after? I guess the real risk of something going wrong regards the database dump.

Thank you!

doing backup daily for a year without stop, no issues

[Goldrush12]

@exodo said in Running backup while NodeBB is running:

@jarko said in Running backup while NodeBB is running:

The question is pretty much all in the title.

Is it ok to run the mongodump command to backup the database + make a backup of user pictures while NodeBB is running? Or should the backup script run ./nodebb stop before and ./nodebb start after? I guess the real risk of something going wrong regards the database dump.

Thank you!

doing backup daily for a year without stop, no issues

How do you make sure the backups work if you need them?

[A Former User]

Test it on a separate instance of NodeBB?