How to back up and restore

Everything you need to back up is in one place: ./data for a Docker deployment; without Docker, the tenants.json in DATA_DIR plus each tenant's data and recordings directories (the tenant main a first start makes is in DATA_DIR too). What they hold is in Data layout.

You can skip the model files (data/models): the server downloads missing ones again at startup.

Back up with the server stopped (simplest)

docker compose stop
tar czf alldayrec-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz data
docker compose start

Back up the database without stopping

Recording files are only appended to, so you can copy them as they are. The database live.db is written to while the server runs, so copy it with SQLite's backup API. This command, run in the container, copies the database of the quickstart tenant main to data/main/live-backup.db:

docker compose exec alldayrec python -c "import sqlite3; sqlite3.connect('/data/main/live.db').backup(sqlite3.connect('/data/main/live-backup.db'))"

Do this for every tenant, with the path changed to its data directory in tenants.json.

Restore

1. Stop the server:

   docker compose stop

2. Put the backed-up data directory (or one tenant's live.db from it) back in place.

3. Start it:

   docker compose start