Created a NodeBB-Backup tool - Request For Feedback

[jarey]

Great work. I think this would be more than useful to a lot of the users.

[jongarrison]

Cool, well it will be interesting to see if it gets used.

[psychobunny]

Nice idea. Maybe if you end up supporting both databases and also maybe a restore from backup option, it would be a cool plugin

[exodo]

sounds very good to me
posible enhancements?

• maybe a cron to autorun all days or every hour etc
• option to remove old backups from x days
• scp copy to another server
  -backup only db and not assets

good job

[jongarrison]

Hmm, yeah it would make sense as a full admin plugin with those other features. I'll put those features on the list.

Why you would only want the db without assets? The system isn't complete without both, right?

[exodo]

@jongarrison said:

Hmm, yeah it would make sense as a full admin plugin with those other features. I'll put those features on the list.

Why you would only want the db without assets? The system isn't complete without both, right?

assets its uploaded avatars , uploaded files if enabled and stuff, right?
maybe you want to save db each hour but you only want to save assets 1 time a day
also if you use imgur maybe no need for assets backups
just and idea anyways

[jongarrison]

@exo.do yeah, that makes sense to just get the critical stuff frequently.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Mega]

I just wonder, whether someone is interested in a guide of automatic incremental backing up NodeBB using rsnapshot on Linux-based servers? I mean not a tool, but a guide only. Because I have no intention yet to make neither the tool nor to contribute to the nodebb-backup tool.

And if I'll make the guide someday, it probably will be not for complete newbies, but for those who's able to (at least):

1. use terminal
2. completely understand what chown and chmod commands are for, and what * * * * * in cronejobs mean

p.s. When you're using rsnapshot, there is almost no difference which database you're using, Redis or MongoDB.

[psychobunny]

We're always happy to accept new contributions to our docs

[julian]

Yes, if we have 2 or more different backup strategies, we could have a whole section on backups for NodeBB...