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Backup and Restore

How to backup and restore Boost

Backup

Boost now supports both online and offline backups. The backup command will output a backup directory containing the following files.
  1. 1.
    metadata - contains backup of leveldb
  2. 2.
    boostd.db - backup of deals database
  3. 3.
    keystore - directory containing libp2p keys
  4. 4.
    token - API token
  5. 5.
    config - directory containing all config files and config.toml link
  6. 6.
    storage.json - file containing storage details
Backup does not back up deal logs and Local Index Directory.

Online backup

You can take an online backup with the below command
boostd backup <backup directory>
The online backup supports running only one instance at a time and you might see a locking error if another instance of backup is already running.

Offline backup

  1. 1.
    Shutdown boostd before taking a backup
  2. 2.
    Take a backup using the command line
boostd backup --offline <backup directory>

Restore

  1. 1.
    Make sure that --boost-repo flag is set if you wish to restore to a custom location. Otherwise, it will be restored to ~/.boost directory
  2. 2.
    Restore the boost repo using the command line
boostd restore <backup directory>
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