Configuring basic backup configuration

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Hello,

I'm using Plone 6 Classic from the Plone docker image. This is a small site and I don't configure storage outside of data.fs

I want to configure a backup system and incorporate into a Docker image

  1. i found collective.recipe.backup · PyPI which states it backs up data.fs.
  2. I know Plone uses the data.fs and possibly some external file system; however, what i remember is if you don't configure to use external files, all data are stored in the data.fs Is this correct?

Am i safe in using collective.recipe to only backup the data.fs?

thanks for any help.

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Yes and no. There's the filestorage with data.fs and blobstorage. The blobstorage contains larger elements such as images, so you'd need to back it up as well.

However collective.recipe.backup · PyPI backs up both automatically, so you don't need to worry about that.

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Thanks. I working with someone who can help me make this happen. thanks for your thoughts.

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What is the case for plone 6 with Volto? without buildout?

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I had a similar question about backups and how to use them without buildout, this is probably of interest to you https://community.plone.org/t/backup-without-buildout/

Also my post here Cookiecutter zope instance and ZEO - #10 by Esoth where I use cookiecutter as a sort of replacement for setting up config files and then use to create a script, somewhat analogous to what collective.recipe.backup was doing with buildout

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