Besides the explanations about backup and restore in the Nextcloud documentation, I’ve created some bash scripts for easy backup/restore of your Nextcloud instance. The Scripts can be found on Codeberg: [image] Nextcloud-Backup-Restore Bash scripts for backup/restore of Nextcloud …

[image] maranov: One thing though – is it necesary to stop the webserver? Haven’t seen this step in other tutorials or official docs. IMO maintenance mode should be enough to make sure there are no inconsistencies… I always do stop the webserver. Because my files are on external storage (whic…

Hey, using this could I link rsync so that after a backup it then moves the backup to an external storage server for an external backup? Thanks, Tom.

Hi Tom, you could also edit the script in order that backups are saved directly to an external storage server.

Thanks for the scrip. Have added into cron and works fine very night around 03:00 AM, so no need to worry for stopping the server. As a side comment, I came to nextcloud in Ubuntu from NextcloudPi running in a Raspberry 3. The NextcloudPi has an admin module to easily configire/use most of the admi…

I’ve introduced a versioning of the scripts now. The version can be found in the header of the scripts. I think, now it’s easier to update already used scripts when some changes were made in the GitHub repo. Also, v1.0.0 comes with some changes improving the maintainability. You can also download …

I’ve moved from GitHub to Codeberg. You can find the repository with the scripts here: [image] Nextcloud-Backup-Restore Bash scripts for backup/restore of Nextcloud

Sir if I change your script and change nginx to apache2 its everything will be ok?

Nice script! Thank you very much. Just one question (maybe i dont get it right) why do you need to stop the webserver during the backup? isnt it enough to put it to maintenance mode? i mean now my clients wont get the information that the server is in maintenance right now because the webserver …

Hello Matthias, it should work when the webserver is still running and only the maintenance mode of NC is active. However, I do stop the webserver in order to make absolutely sure that there are no activities in NC. When your concern is regarding other web applications running on the same server,…

OK, i removed the stop/start of the webserver from the script. my concern is that the nextcloud-clients (for example my brother who is using my server doesnt get the “maintenance/backup in progress” notice when i stop the webserver. so for the user out there it looks like a problem. and a suggesti…

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I’ve moved from GitHub to Codeberg.
You can find the repository with the scripts here:

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