💾 Backups And Moving To A New Server

Your TimeTrackr data lives in two folders inside the timetrackr folder:

• data, the database: accounts, projects, hours and wages.
• public/uploads, the screenshots.

Nightly backups:

The server installer backs up both folders every night at 3am into /backups on your server, one file per night, and keeps 30 days.

Keep a copy somewhere else too. A backup that only lives on the same server is not much help if the server itself is lost. Download the newest file from /backups now and then with FileZilla or WinSCP, and keep it somewhere private, because it holds your staff's screenshots and pay.

Updates keep their own backups:

Every one-click update first copies the version you had into the backups folder inside timetrackr, which is what Undo the last update uses.

Moving to a new server:

1. On the old server, press Deactivate under Settings, Licence.
2. Install TimeTrackr on the new server with the installer, but do not run the setup wizard yet.
3. Stop it with systemctl stop timetrackr.
4. Copy the data and public/uploads folders from the old server into /opt/timetrackr on the new one.
5. Start it with systemctl start timetrackr.
6. Point your web address's A record at the new server.
7. Sign in as before and press Activate under Settings, Licence.