How To Restore from a Backup

You may restore from a backup by following this procedure. You will need your backup zip file handy.

1. Make sure HomeLogger is not running.
2. Unzip the contents of your zip file to a new folder (e.g. homelogger-backup-restore or something like that)
3. Find the homelogger data folder. If you cloned from GitHub it will be at server/data. If you are using Docker, it will be wherever you specified in your docker-compose.yml file. You can create it if it doesn't exist
4. If there is already stuff in the data folder, make a back up copy of it (just in case).
5. Replace the entire contents of the data folder with the contents of your homelogger-backup-restore folder.
6. Under the data/db folder, rename the homelogger-backup-xxxxxxxxx.db file to homelogger.db.
7. You may now start HomeLogger. While starting, make sure to monitor the console output for any errors.

If you run into any issues with this process, please create a new discussion post in the Get Help section of this repo.

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