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Documentation: Structure backup section more clearly (#4559)

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Multiple options exist for making backups of your paperless instance,
depending on how you installed paperless.
Before making backups, make sure that paperless is not running.
Before making a backup, it's probably best to make sure that paperless is not actively
consuming documents at that time.
Options available to any installation of paperless:
- Use the [document exporter](#exporter). The document exporter exports all your documents,
thumbnails, metadata, and database contents to a specific folder. You may import your
documents and settings into a fresh instance of paperless again or store your
documents in another DMS with this export.
- The document exporter is also able to update an already existing
export. Therefore, incremental backups with `rsync` are entirely
possible.
- Use the [document exporter](#exporter). The document exporter exports all your documents,
thumbnails, metadata, and database contents to a specific folder. You may import your
documents and settings into a fresh instance of paperless again or store your
documents in another DMS with this export.
The document exporter is also able to update an already existing
export. Therefore, incremental backups with `rsync` are entirely
possible.
!!! caution
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Options available to docker installations:
- Backup the docker volumes. These usually reside within
`/var/lib/docker/volumes` on the host and you need to be root in
order to access them.
- Backup the docker volumes. These usually reside within
`/var/lib/docker/volumes` on the host and you need to be root in
order to access them.
Paperless uses 4 volumes:
Paperless uses 4 volumes:
- `paperless_media`: This is where your documents are stored.
- `paperless_data`: This is where auxillary data is stored. This
folder also contains the SQLite database, if you use it.
- `paperless_pgdata`: Exists only if you use PostgreSQL and
contains the database.
- `paperless_dbdata`: Exists only if you use MariaDB and contains
the database.
- `paperless_media`: This is where your documents are stored.
- `paperless_data`: This is where auxillary data is stored. This
folder also contains the SQLite database, if you use it.
- `paperless_pgdata`: Exists only if you use PostgreSQL and
contains the database.
- `paperless_dbdata`: Exists only if you use MariaDB and contains
the database.
Options available to bare-metal and non-docker installations:
- Backup the entire paperless folder. This ensures that if your
paperless instance crashes at some point or your disk fails, you can
simply copy the folder back into place and it works.
- Backup the entire paperless folder. This ensures that if your
paperless instance crashes at some point or your disk fails, you can
simply copy the folder back into place and it works.
When using PostgreSQL or MariaDB, you'll also have to backup the
database.
When using PostgreSQL or MariaDB, you'll also have to backup the
database.
### Restoring {#migrating-restoring}
If you've backed-up Paperless-ngx using the [document exporter](#exporter),
restoring can simply be done with the [document importer](#importer).
Of course, other backup strategies require restoring any volumes, folders and database
copies you created in the steps above.
## Updating Paperless {#updating}
### Docker Route {#docker-updating}
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The issues detected by the sanity checker are as follows:
- Missing original files.
- Missing archive files.
- Inaccessible original files due to improper permissions.
- Inaccessible archive files due to improper permissions.
- Corrupted original documents by comparing their checksum against
what is stored in the database.
- Corrupted archive documents by comparing their checksum against what
is stored in the database.
- Missing thumbnails.
- Inaccessible thumbnails due to improper permissions.
- Documents without any content (warning).
- Orphaned files in the media directory (warning). These are files
that are not referenced by any document in paperless.
- Missing original files.
- Missing archive files.
- Inaccessible original files due to improper permissions.
- Inaccessible archive files due to improper permissions.
- Corrupted original documents by comparing their checksum against
what is stored in the database.
- Corrupted archive documents by comparing their checksum against what
is stored in the database.
- Missing thumbnails.
- Inaccessible thumbnails due to improper permissions.
- Documents without any content (warning).
- Orphaned files in the media directory (warning). These are files
that are not referenced by any document in paperless.
```
document_sanity_checker