Hi, I use Joplin for 2 days now and I start wondering how to back up my notes. I have my own joplin-server on a NAS running in docker. Is it better to backup the server or a client ? I feel like backing up the server would be better but I have no real argument. My second question would be to know…

[image] Diplo95: Is it better to backup the server or a client ? I feel like backing up the server would be better but I have no real argument. Why not both? [image] Diplo95: My second question would be to know if there is a way to make it automatic ? For the client you can use this p…

At the moment I use WebDav as sync target, but I backup local and on the server. The advantage of the local backup via JEX is that I can also import the data into another Joplin instance to extract only one note. I only have the server backup in case there is a total loss of the server and I need …

I've seen the backup plugin for the client. Is there something similar for the server ? If not, what are the datas I need to backup ? In my docker, I have : base/ global/ pg_commit_ts/ pg_dynshmem/ pg_logical/ pg_multixact/ pg_notify/ pg_repslot/ pg_serial/ pg_snapshots/ pg_stat/ pg_stat_tmp/ pg_…

On the server, if you're using Joplin Server, you only need to backup the Postgres data for example using pg_dumpall or any other method.

[image] roman_r_m: Why not both? Why do you need to do backup of client and server? I just ask.

Notes are included in the backup for both, but in the client also the client settings. In the server backup but only the info with whom which notebook / note was shared. Client In the client backup you have also the settings, templates css files. You do not need to know anything about databases (…

Hello, I finally decided to implement the backup on the server via a scheduled task on my Synology : docker exec postgres-db sh -c 'pg_dumpall -U joplin > /var/lib/postgresql/data/psql-backup/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)\ psql.backup.sql' find /volume1/docker/joplin/joplin-data/psql-backup* -mtime +7 -exec r…

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Why do you need to do backup of client and server? I just ask.

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