Backup

To backup an Nextcloud installation there are four main things you need to retain:

  1. The config folder
  2. The data folder
  3. The database
  4. The theme folder

Backup Folders

Simply copy your config, data and theme folders (or even your whole Nextcloud install and data folder) to a place outside of your Nextcloud environment. You could use this command:

rsync -Aax nextcloud/ nextcloud-dirbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`/

Backup Database

Warning

Before restoring a backup see Restoring Backup

MySQL/MariaDB

MySQL or MariaDB, which is a drop-in MySQL replacement, is the recommended database engine. To backup MySQL/MariaDB:

mysqldump --single-transaction -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] [db_name] > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak

SQLite

sqlite3 data/owncloud.db .dump > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak

PostgreSQL

PGPASSWORD="password" pg_dump [db_name] -h [server] -U [username] -f nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak