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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, Multiple options exist for making backups of your paperless instance,
depending on how you installed paperless. 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: Options available to any installation of paperless:
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thumbnails, metadata, and database contents to a specific folder. You may import your 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 and settings into a fresh instance of paperless again or store your
documents in another DMS with this export. documents in another DMS with this export.
- The document exporter is also able to update an already existing
The document exporter is also able to update an already existing
export. Therefore, incremental backups with `rsync` are entirely export. Therefore, incremental backups with `rsync` are entirely
possible. possible.
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### Restoring {#migrating-restoring} ### 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} ## Updating Paperless {#updating}
### Docker Route {#docker-updating} ### Docker Route {#docker-updating}