22.3. Backup and restore

22.3.1. Default backup destination

NextGIS Web Docker configuration provides default destination for created backup files. By default it is located in /opt/ngw/backup directory and mounted as docker volume. So if the file name for the backup is not specified, it is automatically created in this directory. Since directory /opt/ngw is used by default, the archive path will look like backup/some-filename-with-extension.

22.3.2. Offline backups with archivist

NextGIS Web Docker stores all data inside docker volumes. For convenient data backup, the package provides archivist tool that copies all from volumes the data to a file.

Since files can be modified during copying, this tool only works in offline mode. All services modifying files must be stopped before copying.

Technically an archive created using archivist is a GNU Tar archive compressed using the zstandard library with default extension .tar.zst. The archive contains data from all components and services, including PostgreSQL data and NextGIS Web file storage.

Предупреждение

Remember to stop all services before doing backup. Otherwise the resulting file cannot be restored.

Backup

Stop all services before you begin:

$ docker-compose stop
Stopping ngwdocker_app_1           ... done
Stopping ngwdocker_postgres_1      ... done

And make sure that there are no active containers - state of all containers must be Exit:

$ docker-compose ps
        Name                    Command                 State     Ports
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ngwdocker_app_1       /opt/ngw/bin/docker-entryp ...   Exit 137
ngwdocker_postgres_1  docker-entrypoint postgres       Exit 0

Now create backup with default filename:

$ docker-compose run --rm archivist backup
backup/archivist-20200217-230615.tar.zst

In case backup directory is mounted as bind mount (not as docker volume) resulting file is located under backup/ directory. You can use scp or any other utility upload file to another host:

$ scp backup/archivist-20200217-230615.tar.zst example.com:/remote/directory

In case of docker volume you can also copy this file to another host via ssh or any other tool such as s3cmd put:

$ docker-compose run --rm archivist cat backup/archivist-20200217-230615.tar.zst | \
> ssh user@example.com 'cat > archivist-20200217-230615.tar.zst'

Start all services again:

$ docker-compose start

Restore

Stop all services before you begin:

$ docker-compose stop

Restore archive:

$ docker-compose run --rm archivist restore backup/archivist-20200217-230615.tar.zst

Start all services again:

$ docker-compose start

22.3.3. Online backups with nextgisweb

NextGIS Web also provides backup tool that can be used online without stopping services. Further information on this tool is available in the NextGIS Web documentation. Aspects specific to NextGIS Web Docker are listed below.

Backup

To create a backup with default filename, run the command:

$ docker-compose run --rm app nextgisweb backup
( A lot of debug messages here )
backup/nextgisweb-20200220-164818.ngwbackup

In case backup directory is mounted as bind mount (not as docker volume) resulting file is located under backup/ directory. You can use scp or any other utility upload file to another host:

$ scp backup/nextgisweb-20200220-164818.ngwbackup example.com:/remote/directory

Restore

Stop all services before you begin:

$ docker-compose stop

Restore archive:

$ docker-compose run --rm app nextgisweb restore FILENAME

Start all services again:

$ docker-compose start