Backing Up & restoring NextCloud Server.

• What Needs Backing Up
• Config Files
• Data Files Location
• Database
• Related
• Links

What Needs Backing Up?

1. Config Files
2. Data Files
3. Database

Config Files

Nextcloud Virtual Machine Appliance by Hanssonit

• /var/www/nexcloud/
• /var/www/

cd ~
tar czvf var-www.tat.gz /var/www

For more info on tar and compressing

Data Files Location

Nextcloud Virtual Machine Appliance by Hanssonit

• /mnt/ncdata/

This is where the “Files” and “Folders” are including *.md, *.ods, *.pdf, *.txt, *.xls, etc.

cd ~
tar czvf 20200607-mnt-ncdata-tar.gz /mnt/ncdata

For more info on tar and compressing

Database

Nextcloud Virtual Machine Appliance by Hanssonit

pg_dump nextcloud_db -f nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.html

Related

• Nextcloud Essentials
• Add External Storage to NextCloud

Links

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.html