Hey folks, I’ve recently been looking into ways to properly back up the apps I have installed through the TrueNAS Scale UI. I already have backups in place for all the data that my apps need and consume. Now I’d like to properly back up their configurations. I read somewhere that all app configurat…

Lo-Fi way would be to screen shot the app ui config for each app. Depending on the app, some have automatic config/data backup features. Plex and the Arrs do. I just add an extra hostpath mounts for those in-container folders. Then push them to google drive.

Well, as I mentioned in my original post, I am already backing up basically everything I can when it comes to the data and internal configurations for each app. That part I’m not worried about. It’s more like, if I were to reinstall TrueNAS Scale from scratch, is there not a faster way to restore al…

[image] ChapterSevenSeeds: It’s more like, if I were to reinstall TrueNAS Scale from scratch, is there not a faster way to restore all my apps to how they were before without installing each one individually and manually copying over all the configs into the UI? It surprises me that there isn’t …

I have been searching high and low for the answer to this question and it is looking like there just isn’t an answer. In an attempt at restating the problem: I have a 100% operational setup with 18 Docker containers. All of the data for all of the containers has been configured as “Host Path” and…

The solution would be to move to self managed apps. As in using your own compose via the custom yaml in the iX apps section or something like dockge or portainer. That way you can just keep your compose somewhere in the cloud (I use a github repo) and easy to redeploy if you needed. The next step …

You should be able to find a docker-compose.yaml under /mnt/.ix-apps/app_configs//versions//templates/rendered/docker-compose.yaml Then try to process it via yq -p json -o yaml docker-compose.yaml And you should have a good starting point for your actual repeatable docker-compose file.

Just a quick confirmation; this was indeed the way. Like OP I was looking for a way to make apps more ‘backup robust’. With the addition of being a little bit more OS independent. Creating custom compose apps was the trick! Thanks!

You should vote for this feature request : [image] Backup App configuration Feature Requests Problem/Justification Backup App settings in TrueNAS (not the container settings which are mapped) for import later if needed Impact Will allow users to backup all settings conf…

This is an interesting thread and I have been thinking about it for a while. In the past, I had assumed that by snapshotting the dataset of the app and the ix-applications dataset. I would then simply replicate the two from my backup server and voila! (although I never really tried whehter it woudl …

Proper app configuration backup and restore

Apps and Virtualization

RemDG June 13, 2025, 10:47am 9

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