Backup for oCIS files

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I now have oCIS running fine (docker on a Debian machine, very few users only, several dozen GBs of data), now I would like to perform regular backups of the user’s data. Data and configuration are both stored on a POSIX-compliant filesystem.
Is is enough to just backup the ocis-data folder? Can it be also simply restored?
The documentation is rather sparse on this points…

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I am also very interested in the backup/restore story.

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Any ideas how to backup/restore OCIS?

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Please check out Backup Considerations | ownCloud for more information.

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Will there be a built in backup and restore function that makes things a bit easier?

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I’ve read the page you linked, thank you. There is some mention of: “Depending on the used blobstore, the blobs need to be backed up separately, for example if S3 is used.”

My data however is stored locally on an ext4 partition: taking into consideration the config files, is it sufficient to back up all files and directories (i.e. with rsync) to be able to restore all user data?

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Yes. If you are not using an external S3 store, backing up all files and folders is sufficient.

There is a backup consistency command ocis backup consistency which allows checking a copy for consistency. You could run that command on your backup to make sure everything was copied correctly.

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Thanks for getting back to me. I’ll try ocis bakcup consistency as soon as I have the time, my backup is on a remote device so I’ll have to figure out how to do that.

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Is backup ocis backup consistency implemented in OCIS Version: 5.0.9?

ocis backup consistency -p /ocis_data/storage/users

returns: “No help topic for ‘backup’” on my system.

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Ah no. Sorry, It’s a ocis 7 feature.

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