Noodara
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Backups

What to back up yourself before you rely on an installation.

This release has no managed, automatic backups. Two things are worth backing up yourself before you rely on this installation:

  • /opt/noodara/.env. Its NOODARA_MASTER_KEY value is unrecoverable if lost — every stored SSH credential becomes permanently undecryptable without it. Back this file up somewhere safe, outside the VPS itself.
  • The two named Docker volumes (noodara_postgres_data and noodara_redis_data), especially before an upgrade. A pg_dump of the postgres volume, taken and stored off the host, is the simplest option today.

install.log never contains a secret — it is safe to share for diagnosis. .env.bak-* files do contain secrets, exactly like .env itself, and should be handled and stored the same way.