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Update backup.rst

Open rickysixx opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Mention custom_apps directory.

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Custom apps too should be retained when fully backing up a Nextcloud instance.

rickysixx avatar Jan 23 '24 10:01 rickysixx

Hi @rickysixx - First, thank you for the contribution!

Is there a specific situation you ran into that lead you to making this change?

In theory, apps in alternative apps_paths should be handled the same way as any other app.

joshtrichards avatar Jan 23 '24 15:01 joshtrichards

Hi @joshtrichards!

Yes. In these days I have been experimenting different strategies to backup my Nextcloud instance.

First I performed a backup following the steps in that documentation page, but when I restored that backup I noticed that there were no apps in my restored Nextcloud instance (which was strange, because in my original instance I use Calendar and Task apps for example) even though I have not changed the default app installation path.

So I digged and I have found that the /var/www/html/custom_apps directory should be backed up too, if there are apps installed.

I thought about making this pull request because I felt the documentation was missing this little thing :)

rickysixx avatar Jan 23 '24 18:01 rickysixx

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