Working with backups

Creating backups

PERSEUS automatically creates backup files (see config variable CREATE_BACKUPS). The backups are created every night so that you have daily backups of your data.

Note

If you are using docker or podman the backup directory is inside the container: /home/perseus/perseus/backups/

Restore from a backup

To restore a full backup PERSEUS needs to be started with the following environment variables:

RESTORE_BACKUPS="1"
PERSEUS_BACKUP_RESTORE_ID="2025-08-07T05_04_53+00_00"

Important: Do not forget to remove the environment variables after a successful restore and restart PERSEUS.