Update Emplio and back up your data

Updating keeps your settings and data. Backing up means copying Emplio’s Docker volumes and your .env.

Update

Run the installer again:

curl -fsSL https://emplio.app/install.sh | bash

Or, from the folder you installed to:

cd ~/emplio && ./setup.sh

It keeps your .env, downloads the newest images, restarts Emplio and checks it’s up. The installer replaces the other files in ~/emplio, so keep your own changes in .env.

What to back up

Volume	What’s in it
`postgres-data`	Accounts, chats, tasks, automations, settings and saved logins.
`gitea-data`	Memory: each business’s files and their full history.
`app-data`	Uploaded and made files, and each business’s records database.
`secrets`	The token Emplio uses to reach its file history.

Keep a copy of .env too. Without the same ENCRYPTION_KEY, saved passwords and keys can’t be read.

Back up with Docker

Docker names the volumes after the install folder, so in ~/emplio they are emplio_postgres-data and so on. Check yours with docker volume ls. This stops Emplio for a moment, writes one archive per volume to ~/emplio/backups, and starts it again:

cd ~/emplio
mkdir -p backups
docker compose stop
for v in postgres-data gitea-data app-data secrets; do
  docker run --rm -v "emplio_$v:/from:ro" -v "$PWD/backups:/to" alpine tar -czf "/to/$v.tar.gz" -C /from .
done
cp .env backups/
docker compose start

Copy the backups folder somewhere off the machine.

Never run docker compose down -v. The -v deletes the volumes, and with them all of Emplio’s data.

Restore

On the new machine, put your .env in the install folder first, so the installer keeps it. Unpack each archive into the volume of the same name before Emplio starts, then run ./setup.sh.

Configuration

What each setting in .env does.

Troubleshooting

If something doesn’t come back up.

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Troubleshooting

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What to back up

Back up with Docker

Restore