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basemodo backup

Take a Backup of an App's data now: its database and every file on its volume.

Terminal window
basemodo backup [OPTIONS]

Basemodo already takes one a day; take one before something risky (a migration, a bulk edit), then basemodo restore <backup> if it goes wrong. Each Backup is kept 7 days. The App keeps running meanwhile.

Arguments

  • --app <APP>: The App to back up. Default: the one named after the current folder.

Like every command, it also takes the global options --json and --api-url.

Examples

Back up the App of this folder before a migration:

Terminal window
basemodo backup
basemodo run "npm run migrate"

Back up another App, keeping the id for a script:

Terminal window
basemodo backup --app lunch-rota --json

Output

With --json, it prints {"id", "app", "kind" (manual), "size_bytes", "created_at", "expires_at"}.

From an agent

The local MCP serves it as the tool backup. It changes things, so an agent's client may ask you before it runs. Its arguments are the command's, named as JSON keys: app (text). It answers what the command prints with --json.

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