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How to restore application from backups ​

In the event of an emergency, here is how to restore:

  1. Go to S3 backups
  2. Select IxDF folder
  3. Download the latest backup (format YYYY-mm-dd-hh-mm-xx.zip)
  4. Log into production forge
  5. Grab the archive password from BACKUP_ARCHIVE_PASSWORD environment variable
  6. Extract the archive using the password

MySQL Restoration ​

To restore MySQL, you have to follow the steps above.

Testing locally ​

  1. Locate the MySQL dump under db-dumps
  2. Drop your local DB docker compose down -v && docker compose up -d
  3. Extract and import the dump
bash
bunzip2 < ~/Downloads/2022-10-10-04-23-01/db-dumps/mysql-forge.sql.bz2 | mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 33060 -u ixdf_web -psecret ixdf

Restoring it on other servers ​

  1. Locate the MySQL dump under db-dumps
  2. Move the file to the server
bash
scp /path/to/db-dumps/mysql-forge.sql.bz2 forge@staging.ixdf.dev:/tmp/mysql-forge.sql.bz2
  1. SSH into the server ssh forge@staging.ixdf.dev
  2. Extract and import the dump
bash
bunzip2 < /tmp/mysql-forge.sql.bz2 | mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u forge -pforge forge

Important files ​

LetsEncrypt ​

You can either restore LetsEncrypt files from /etc/letsencrypt directory or follow the SSL Configuration Guide to generate a new certificate.

nginx ​

You can find all nginx configuration under /etc/nginx directory. You can use scp to move the files to the server & reload the nginx.

PHP ​

All PHP configuration are under /etc/php directory.

Supervisor ​

Use scp to move supervisor configuration from /etc/supervisor to the remote host.