What and how to Backup ?

[NorbertK]

Hello all,
I run UMS on linux and want to do regular backups of the UMSconfiguration and metadata , NOT the media itself. The media resides on mounted volumes and its backup process is already in place. The installation of the software is done by ansible and is secured with git repository for the ansible files.

UMS in installed in `/opt/ums` and runs under the user `ums`, using the configuration directory `/home/ums/.config/UMS`.

If I understand correctly it should be sufficient to save the directory `/home/ums/.config/UMS`. Can someone confirm or amend this , please ?

Is it required to stop UMS before the backup because of the database ?

[boss]

I am quite sure you would only need to backup the directory "/home/ums/.config/UMS"
You could setup cron job to do it automatically at a specified time.
I don't think you would need to stop UMS but if you did, the cron job could stop UMS, do the backup and then start UMS again.