Back up and restore

A backup is a copy of everything on your site: the database (pages, settings, your brand) and the uploaded files (images). Take one before a big change, and restore it if you want to go back. Backups are saved on your computer, in ~/.atelier/backups.

In the desktop app

Open the Backups tab.

• Back up now makes a backup straight away.
• Your backups lists the backups on this computer. Pick one and click Restore to put the site back the way it was, or Save a copy… to keep the file somewhere else.
• Restore from a file on my computer… restores a backup file you saved elsewhere.

In the terminal

atelier data backup                 # back up now
atelier data backup --label before-redesign   # add a label to the file name
atelier data list                   # list your backups
atelier data restore <file>         # restore one (asks you to confirm)

A backup is a .tar.gz file. Each one records which site it came from, and restoring another site's backup is refused unless you add --other-site.

Before a big change

Two tools help, and they do different jobs:

• A backup keeps everything, so you can go back after any change, including an update.
• A snapshot in Freeze & Live keeps the published site on show to visitors while you keep working, and you can switch back in seconds. Backups include your snapshots.

Your AI provider keys are stored in the database, so every backup contains them. Keep backups somewhere private. See Hardening.

Sites on a server

For a site you manage on a server, the same commands take --site. The backup is made on the server and copied to this computer. See Sites on a server.