Make back-up > New fresh install > recover posts, users and data

[MJ]

Is it possible to make a back-up from NodeBB (0.9.2) and install a new fresh recent nodeBB. And recover the posts users and other data (except the pluggins)

Is this possible and how do I do that?

I use Redis as database, but I don't know how this works. So that's why I'm asking.

[charles]

@MJ I've asked in other posts for some type of user/content export similar to wp that can then be imported into a fresh install but didn't get any response so I assume it doesn't exist. It would be nice to have. We will have to wait. Sadly it seems development has slow to a crawl while others are moving ahead.

[mechanix]

I´m also very interested in this topic. Is there a general backup strategy? Right now my forum runs in a lxc container which I´m periodically backup with rsync

[connectkushal]

was looking for the same thing, and so far got this link. Its a way to backup/restore the entire database. So basically if you create a fresh nodebb install, with the same db name and same db user/password, it should work. Havent tried it yet though.

Upgrading - NodeBB Documentation

[mechanix]

@connectkushal thank you. I´ll have a look at that. Would be nice to have some export/import function inside the admin dashboard though

[connectkushal]

@mechanix true ! this should be put up as a feature request.

[Albus]

As long as you migrate the .rdb database (download, then upload to new instance) and carry over your existing redis.conf you can migrate without issue.

[yariplus]

When you change nodebb versions you will need to do ./nodebb upgrade to update the database schema, I would do that first before backing it up and moving it to a clean install. afaik the database is located at /var/redis/6379/dump.rdb by default.

[connectkushal]

@yariplus and for mongodb users ?

[yariplus]

@connectkushal ehh, /data/db/ is the default, but it can vary by distro, check your mongodb.conf, src

[manan]

@yariplus moving to clean install and copying config.json and starting the instance gives "Error:Cannot find module mongodb" error. Please help me find what to do in this case.

[pikshub]

[yariplus]

@manan said in Make back-up > New fresh install > recover posts, users and data:

Error:Cannot find module mongodb

It would appear that the mongodb package is not installed. Running npm install again might fix it.

[manan]

@yariplus Ah...I was doing it on version 0.9.4 which did not have mongodb dependency listed in package.json. Had to install manually. Thanks.